Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c62c9b0e8bfc1dbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:28:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 027d0d57c55248b5897045b924449890 SHA-1: 2807049dd06124a93d794abb5834b06060ef5140 SHA-256: c62c9b0e8bfc1dbe7e3beff40c220f2794223249e5c30fcf0ed65aab7a357ba2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links strongly suggests an attempt to lure victims to external sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/wusoxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/77714729851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearefamilypalestine.com/clients/3/3b/3bc38fc23f9ffb54b20226cbd6ad6ce3/File/kijutafokazajajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607758ee8c005---16870235791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokeocncafe.com/uploads/files/27643663504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/doxekojijovaduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/dileditefovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/4088352781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08e4f223a7713bd1d7ab936e1d615d2/sutiromelaresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/wojadolubitejipefafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miraclechuppahs.com/userfiles/file/dezifasuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e37928596---37608022229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c8bf97dfb---manawibowivabekejolanar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3d6059b8bdd7104e25f9185ac39b87e/42814343650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vapowuveluzagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efe5ce6e89e---30335967201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ba1f7237638bb4466d2069f22c920fb/64027033653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/tasozeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.terraton.com.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20454272955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39086518257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/pajitedofugilirasubipuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gomaihoa.net/upload/files/84929013928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/34597278514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/xipisonunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doperugigiromuvule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=checkouts+by+cynthia+pdfPDF 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_off0000dc3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC3A 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 535ce938e932b24f846b8e96eb34f153457be75ecb207d818681e98f638ab2e6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C7 17648 bytes
SHA-256: b6eebe0cdf7e7424cbcd56bebd07ba9ab06c575badfe14a28cdd2e6909b8dceb
font_02_sfnt_off00012341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12341 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1