Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 962caf64c0c64025…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:16:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9ff0f72e99d8c6f9901654b6029db94a SHA-1: e2ece63bfcc12a89983aa45998ad10abbfaed1ce SHA-256: 962caf64c0c6402550e92e879daa7be91df974ccc75f06b4026ee5d6c442bb46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for malicious redirection. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=525+as+a+product+of+its+prime+factors PDF link annotation
    • https://aspirecambodia-edu.org/userfiles/file/fedukubuwigewojimexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/lofamirenazuduwafupavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883a67e23e6---84873678063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/badewomobiduvotedujudata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/93638542537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b2b580097173d97b9034953392ff181/vozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161268f2299d14---23528067216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca878a5045---24625213485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/42589553605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/moduperediretotexonofemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd77ad89e2ed74b8ac874453128ebc6e/pivogudikuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88df4149dc32b5a67454d6b90fa4a212/xevufikejuvivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/korm7o8829i2ju9iahg36jbmn1/mumebedaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9a3236f2e---kivigosejaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/20444752837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/94777993771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoasaigonkimcuong.com/uploads/images/files/fibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/196h8s9pjd6kl3gum4brr2ip7a/meduworekogomarekilafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetachikappasigmaalumni.org/clients/5/56/56ac51e2ee760b54d3ff8b7d53c877b7/File/43617196833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/wimegexumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/42448517525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6efa5acb3e---54144612792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/julukodezijaxomizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f91b85a9b5b---bajitiwinazavopinotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/342665215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7179135fc723f2ef0a5a76e69a74c35e/57159880935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d2da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF1 10888 bytes
SHA-256: d4313094172951423ad2e8c461b1a98370ad3105a83d7a6282e080d9c93fcd78
font_02_sfnt_off0001043d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043D 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 495f8a4c0850e0525f55e65aa78b2b5a70f9796802bd51314170a7e935c70257