Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca62032d12bf7022…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d677840596711ceccb8fcb6bac5f0475 SHA-1: bd69bb975c4d68381ac700ee7cd81cff3249904d SHA-256: ca62032d12bf70225769a1476b8c8da8a851dfee576c0e1c71c0bbf0e1ec7347
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this, as these are common tactics for redirecting users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kaffir+boy+in+america+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a290ce68685---zufazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6alp80j9bpef86ks5d8haa0kmm/bubebakiwoxuxawufililol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee2c8bc3fa---58418703198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kuvinowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generoussecurity.com/uploads/77089135902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kar1jr56hl9k16ae0plfps9cqb/40035547531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4jjh6mj4u08a89nco7la6oo05/45584463641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/koxodidubazedagitupijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078080c57fe3---30414085395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/wobaganizexugasebezuleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e1a99c019---niduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/xedexusufusafado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/tovafekakikemibunonekufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927a4ddab7d---88460334787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e9837a9ce---60181337354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070320baa8f5---69078241014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads//file/lipejupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/73656148234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freshchannels.com/home/sites/freshchannels/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kejegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/71335005130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///tovevefalezalanobemevoxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ifim8g07k30vh4ja8n2evpjjf4/45418382605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/23819351548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moorheadhigh1970.com/clients/c/c3/c3beaea4c2dff0dfe15f0c96d12524a1/File/folenemapofejefobarijoloj.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_off0000c7e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7E3 17436 bytes
SHA-256: e379cd4e622dd3514b8937576b9ef7486ff341063368fe2e9817ae0102a80c09
font_01_sfnt_off0000f56f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D86 10716 bytes
SHA-256: b35f2a6dc6b7b8bafde808ecced7ed2e4ee2b0ca5751e8f69debd5a7217a00bb