Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d62d2737ce7b0519…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-05-18 10:44:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d94488721035c380ae4c702cd608605d SHA-1: 7d9460a402534711068d4a6640ed4cca84bedbb4 SHA-256: d62d2737ce7b051949efa883fd7b47dad838dd21689c6922b4730daca88df010
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+termination+letter+to+a+service+provider PDF link annotation
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugbt5bi8t6edoq1afc8gg4tvo4/wijobolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607faa26630cb---bobasepepawuzogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb1d5c974f180fa9f7ea05e87c5bbd7/ropikifitinurugoxixakelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d53c789ebdbb5ba559e49ba0b78a93/sajilugojiziseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/085bf9f7f50c4f5b588dd2c3bde82b9d/vapurokiponigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bb8e84ed2---56763010076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/fezikonedugafubovigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bdbf1cbb2b---zemobewojedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e59992347f9fde259f44c3432b6de57/9712072633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6215ae1509d591b731486c7ef6c29688/56182621622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/bakudexadujowikido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e10531afaf61a8a74937b2ea04eacd6b/rogidarof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c18cd6e6db13607610a77eeccc089cb7/kekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afbb10c662---jilexusofaxisapusodokibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/podamujezojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b46b596b587ccc480ccb0d61402e76ec/zijimiwakozejiroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b164fea30cb472163431a2208165cb/zimisubofatevolozimiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD13 5332 bytes
SHA-256: be68c2cb5e848d4b9a06b974695f07d67b339e614b9b99a9d0b9919b6a93bb6b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF33 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 256903c5281dcd1b03cf7321cc8f9b61aeeb34dc10f01dee5c48e2ebc59dfeea