Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d62d1a913b72fd83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-10 07:56:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: edf551f6c1a0319ec16e89dc95195804 SHA-1: 5875bb3cd772c5c0c7f0af7325ae7d7973f496c1 SHA-256: d62d1a913b72fd83429a5e7f24d7481d1a8298a2b691e7e09943c44ebf199ad9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and the use of compromised upload storage suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://houselandia.ru/files/72815957411.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/65300190397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/98978094757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/93137499574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705e6f924c9---furatipavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746ea3ea9f5---jifoguxixuwuzadabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardlankin.com/clients/86087/File/pivujesiwenizupoxateva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3db5b07bd5085dc0dba203bc47f57d/gutewalivuvelisisepezebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfr7j85i7ntvtf2tq3c58pb519/witizogadexizamotaxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kopudobukonedavinerarusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/98118292339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba709a80632---85562605614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a798dea635e---23574224418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a947bf0d9565e251e4065a059bfb532a/29151169958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60803e9a747be0a810d96e889b6229d8/33536017792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849ef52a4c1---14911263286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/60590774718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ede6cccc39dc365d9793e2bddf4c1e99/belemenosudifepabufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/dadup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/77572877873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/dulozufojazudaxaviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088790271571---gujipufafopexerenerotupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///20210515194855_1025438061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=personification+for+starsPDF 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_off000100e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E6 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 31bc51cf0d726b5a386a2cd2281f08e390447c41ce55199bfe0eb506e4541fd5
font_01_sfnt_off00011833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11833 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 5baf1552e4e9c8aa1a460b8a0c576815e466ed58041492ffc793ff27baf048cc
font_02_sfnt_off00014385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14385 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1