Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d62133cfdc09a7c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 00:57:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ff605b44f2eab4d20cdf0c3d4cc50fe6 SHA-1: eca715780c389aef9e39ee93c715d73de054793e SHA-256: d62133cfdc09a7c61e11d10b72c83311b5b50537bec9b93ca85b9f6736bc485d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links and the overall structure indicate a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+send+videos+on+discord+mobile
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3694b8ac76---32184398833.pdf
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210613215417_f2os1y.pdf
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p5hgk42itnhgrgv65g5kir9u4/bufibafufuxur.pdf
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/10753162018.pdf
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/586464171.pdf
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/25607319768.pdf
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/kupate.pdf
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/datitit.pdf
    • http://webelievedin1984.com/clients/6/67/676624d6593aa512bfa6e10e765af00e/File/34597685826.pdf
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780cd710530---53262749026.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c781046162eff87b3abac82c2a3a10c/83814915152.pdf
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/87714689316.pdf
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda2626cffa---nizemuxefumezaxanazo.pdf
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/52756463626.pdf
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/tusuguz.pdf
    • http://www.tokyomagic.jp/images/library/File/34411138270.pdf
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27905a888b17089cc0611b019df0909/30340948423.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/2363460483.pdf
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/mosati.pdf
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b20f4adbe2---xefunufu.pdf
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/libokisediti.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fd21d50ef---77576956994.pdf
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/17014029362.pdf
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/xituzerexuxe.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dec9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEC9 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6db.bin
0544a20a2adfa0517cf1dfa6c4e8010f3045cb17211ec58b4565e410060a52fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DB 17836 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012614.bin
062fb0146ec87d74d2722080db3207812c426461a60e5fb151dd7fc758f3ad3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12614 10768 bytes