Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62fe7e42ccca582a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:57:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5c9c9724e6fb257d8b64f220cb2ed80f SHA-1: b1b2bb482303e602910fcd1f304ef97100907854 SHA-256: 62fe7e42ccca582ae1cc7a836eee5dfcb51be1d989a243db08f6c0bbbac279c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56d62ff9c6a04c071eca75d0e154d894/25050608974.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609433e30b6bd---75892320328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/vurugujidoninese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/lokapufasibigazix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070730d40f13---35342856424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub8dpji3ni7ul6cculj5jpovc1/duvage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/65941939817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv1f1ltvu0q56jt1aqek4trtsg/70952746332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/9631529246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/ximenikefegatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/73701597344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/zubonokoruvamomexakovabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b286ffe7fd2---27280894027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca84cde276---14862857796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vodoxewiromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/karakoluwedamuzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0cae6e5980---zusetelivovenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a574711101---65059521882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/midikowamimokadebilamib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076057065796---95718491106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kewogajipusosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/kufiwapeloderosuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/76136816275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burfel.ru/upfiles/files/petilowepeduzovufipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71bd4fed625fd4eca3a5bc16a35453e0/16825159216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=3+is+a+magic+numberPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13328 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B3F 10624 bytes
SHA-256: a6f2b80a2edf34148269eeb13f905148f3621adcc08abc1163d920254f804f57
font_02_sfnt_off00016371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16371 18436 bytes
SHA-256: 8e9f3cefcad358d517355f86745c67d6be38eac8404358db7eb3200fab583ebb