Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca62aa102efa72ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 11:51:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: aaf56072e6be33536a99477eefa4a343 SHA-1: 2b4dcab7dc1e91acf89a278615eb1b4347c90866 SHA-256: ca62aa102efa72ae1734bd869e44718836bbfd2e56b32e72be544d5a0f9e60b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9866

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://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/wezenomagivuxuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7915a1664a---70250190070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24235896e7d4c62cd228e69ed4955846/44669038061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf0a368e7c5287f48ea21305296bd6ad/gisuwezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/jixafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a89b35226bcf2c35161e04ef0de7bf8/dabuwusofebemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c29ff384a6b24255a61e3eca8c6689c1/woseroxepugawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/jebikowivibaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/podebipotizobipufales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/10462392539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linker-apps.com/files/xujazilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/rusemenagawafikowivusawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i99fd699ke2sf3ogqd7tjoj672/64735301650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0977862173---remuduxipivanel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c1f556eb1---4154652696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c7055b043---97471035247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/55522431761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210627221132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camwater.org/media/files/laxolegajarijipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901a7823e5e---18126657247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/844425045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe1a5d9bcc---23066179712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609995512c517---25019419546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/29847541375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c258a87f1---86599289982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07794abaea0d7cff392a290de6cfa46a/88599552075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/61913542683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cervical+stroma+meaningPDF 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_off000103f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F2 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 2c62139f7514e1c3fa415eb07df2fc0a094e1d7810876f722f0edf1ca9658a12
font_01_sfnt_off000132fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132FC 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 557f3c3ea88d549cd5a606e495f2042eb21462439cc489e1a97c4421f66e9293
font_02_sfnt_off00014b80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1