Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 962d87bc180d1d7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:44:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3905cf4affbac8ab1249ad3573448605 SHA-1: 94fe75dabf48b87840e0db96fce008a815a9a53d SHA-256: 962d87bc180d1d7eca688ad2556a2a82ff39b8032710f8f40b472472e648cd57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jeu+facebook+android PDF link annotation
    • http://ortopediaszombathely.hu/editor_up/vujaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mycocoa.org/images/upload/files/51794075025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfcdd8be268a11ba09e0097c5ac5224b/60637073166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/segapasezovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bd360a9be---kotegozikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ruchya.com.tw/upload/files/bijoxagepamujufozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/gusokezesiwemepojanabiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/lizikaxiwomajikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents/files/delemabosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/vafagatomuwexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cemeba.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/tarokebomalolivaxuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/69075004773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailynewsodia.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/98751621796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/2171977292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32506ddf5e824fd06c821c56d17957a7/79432781699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauroconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/26548554276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/40473581958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/32387418711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/zokazowufetuwutekabisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/judugolarolagoregeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volker-issmer.de/userfiles/file/11884186707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailpark.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/58805945692.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_off0000e4dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DD 10480 bytes
SHA-256: dc1e6b6ad3b2b6459c0cb73a2eb84bdc54ed316d60cec3970720dc4df8b5f776
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC8 19784 bytes
SHA-256: 4d513c1703a9a519ea3725862db8d77363638dda8f96391b89c8aa6db81eeb0c
font_02_sfnt_off00012ddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1