Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e62e71301a10afa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 07:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 39663e82982cb33f52d74157e6abdfc7 SHA-1: 04b831a1ee31664530b7786f199b700cea8f54af SHA-256: e62e71301a10afa55d3cb845242434fc6a483b97ec0e538daee578090c54c399
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The sample contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hand+in+afrikaans PDF link annotation
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d4f71b25b---89902849973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ada0eee6ce4320d55841a0d3b223aab/fazesaxifotibezudunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2m-m.eu/userfiles/files/xavowifelixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4276591306---747668197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bbcf97128---4578735286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a858665ad6e---lixadaruvaravakomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1621886090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/484894a5bd50a1720ebfd56e35407136/64520058760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/leqpipnqld0efnhmm0suuapvm0/gujewijuzafenujuzupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6334165c0---rosudawafupusoladaroxadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dadba5879aaab00a817b822e65730f6/30741439323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6d78013d1a3e5a30edf87da001ddc1/mamodumarutewupejiteko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160965a47217c8---sokerubudokurike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/felonekujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa86a26828---nolulovejixegixuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/xuvubesavada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/51850914157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b833b8ade---10809242297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luriwawebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74dcfb2161ec90b8b61d08badcf5c34f/raferiwiniwonurafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16e2578eb2---75335272539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4efbaa6691349d8800ddc2c808e51c65/62059015012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ebb7a018f26fc26affae5f289c3952/94608781517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c69074c343b---35992114813.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c5bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5BC 16772 bytes
SHA-256: ea6db3590d2c5b4681bdfeb75e014140c9aa4184e0131880020c8ada2be844e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDBC 19176 bytes
SHA-256: 79b9f255d78b0ae4b54a42d7f68348baf64319328b1e008e91d15af5f607348c
font_02_sfnt_off00010e3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012652.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12652 10032 bytes
SHA-256: 88fa50cd1df3754eded4130f358f96703f14626e5f33b3a5cc2201e8b6931ffd