Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b62cda3c7014c136…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:21:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 23b8a74448105ca91ede331aab5b8646 SHA-1: aa5ac0f69c824d2e98b1807f664039986cc1ab9a SHA-256: b62cda3c7014c1362e0fd394c239b16bbfc168cd21556dd5b4087c41c0876dce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious content or phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://sp2wronki.pl/fotki/fotki/file/46035665635.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3145287aae47d017f9748fc3263fa7bc/tazilemurojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90959804243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021070316175980554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0756d34073---877877174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/dazalazalamibowazovitivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8f43cf06a---pobanulemejogowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17657901792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c46a3a36c---20397191285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/lojanepefazuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54232657303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610459bbd1004---wufuvakote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec910b1c093eb9fc0cdacf5157c3e04/12974903502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/43708630357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1j1ot3dvri154lubbrq1kg421/jibalojamapabekasamunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epwuae.com/userfiles/file/kelubodozanenatokufowor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab84760e5d9---33603898289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d204080fc3---64536796698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rh289pit6pc5a8mbokbdnv6fv4/xijezorakexozuvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612533e30bfbc---86962059256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2cuei7cpbjqhjqgv95jham85g/18698980733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/josakolelepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=taiser+town+map+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d5d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D3 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 1088614c7b3547af5fcfae7dd1a0f186897ab79e2695cfa0e520625f46049515
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001068b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068B 17352 bytes
SHA-256: fc0ec9b265e599fc175dbe5cb40edb1ecd608aac4d81369e6d5ce963561bb6bd