Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d62cbfe222415cfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 21:59:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c663089ae39f293db1c93e3267139876 SHA-1: 8968188dcfe4c0a052a2c8a8bd6d76d205a8843f SHA-256: d62cbfe222415cfcf7fed4c41a505156dbcf174d84065b3dd595595658f5c290
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+fake+screenshot+anime PDF link annotation
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd38fbed267---92292379328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084034039ac0---17332878806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f01291b97---25752679900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79689421d7c64df13255832606bfb74c/88893265003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/figiwamufatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd3803a884e---9543018637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/86798695772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/200ae0f6a8707ae7368db7a8801bef9d/89470366846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8af8e0b63d97f7c17adda3d5e474133b/bolefedulipixamosufoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debnine.net/UserFiles/File/nedalubotadevoxupisuxoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/sunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072750d54648---13071264837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/fokinadifodaxoxizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d43db6157b---ruzegasefetaxepike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wfuchiomega.com/clients/4/46/46a815049f9cfb11ab63b386d19cdfb8/File/81756547977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7518b21e3---84468091972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotoma.it/userfiles/files/39848721935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/gubadibedotubebisagute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/tatarezoxatunixawejewowen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntqtl0gb9b9nu0ai6pvk9ebpa9/jefipozabiwuzajumipifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/disuzegabifoxapikagaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9f3ea084e---16487382038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/jamevuxoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/wefumidaxovuzos.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_off000104c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011cd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CD9 10724 bytes
SHA-256: f700fcaf2c7876ec339d297e74cbddb71e7d6c4387ee0e5807d02fbf06a784fa
font_02_sfnt_off0001354d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1354D 16620 bytes
SHA-256: bce484dc3bc058c5627668eb0351e6c3fd7a63a267d99271437843af3fc9942f