Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efc62610921025c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 14:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 852bcbc0e775fc9863085d71d436c40c SHA-1: 4ea3c3d5861145f41de1f74a38cb0801640fc421 SHA-256: efc62610921025c76a64c048882ed73fde7135a88f9636b6a513b851baa3ef8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external content, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://broadmoor77.com/clients/39738/File/dubuzubawapitavozovozige.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/sanifozitigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogtsqoqfsr9v5fvdjour4aqvv7/kusokoxirazovefawog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alajuusa.ee/media/contents/file/rinidasomomamunazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b13e6752e---gatonunuvomasubazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7e7c7e3f82---dilupipatinalonun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/37252552159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e2d99741fcbe72296154a8aaba9a8f/51767583329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/27986775644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090be00d87f5---nituruselupeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmnquqp985ibnrvulfc7umnbc4/44183856777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/24740029134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/18044773269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/lifuguwawivujizogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonkertrail.org/clients/9/92/9260a3c387aed4615f72c72c3a1da295/File/wurijamatiritegisuder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802d88ae6e6---67743329160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9088ba25df2b05c762f724085ce190b7/purel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3336d0fc50a6e565803363e62da9235f/5306501838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/54683479963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8647022640---pufuxetibeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f60e6a389ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d28628515---xapidirigufuriwibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/56429334723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=top+ten+special+forcesPDF 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_off0000fa82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA82 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 29298dee105a77e15f5edacd3a37ef8f68f3273cb564db46a872be0784f8ede6
font_01_sfnt_off00011252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11252 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A64 17944 bytes
SHA-256: bbf5dc85a8a2712d721a7e6a6e5195f26d529c1fc49e3131720f9dc2f97a02f4