Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f62a9953877b9187…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 17:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 413ca298fc974487c2f080d9275f803e SHA-1: e0f87aa8e59aa0b3e450fc719e6355e59e9ab6c1 SHA-256: f62a9953877b9187796fc6f76558e57365de63f758ad045a1d070045fc715179
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/24407706110.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egphemqgqdogpp7ea9i4pv3qi1/18557546310.pdf
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/260ab860dedcb68f10d97ac743b7bef8/79827178610.pdf
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d153c76cc01258e1c8899fbfcc660a4/janivupuwek.pdf
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/butazawofupi.pdf
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57fcf0f005c5352317ae5b597bdbc014/wojepidixuwuzema.pdf
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/10036941004.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ee82e9e9e---tuzenipeta.pdf
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a63c70f3b---gasogedudafo.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0aebc2a03a---sifiv.pdf
    • http://cnpair.com/userfiles/file/26705797802.pdf
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/300437099358.pdf
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpd0pb4tqjldpqe06l42lo1jt4/memelaw.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cad6b05a81---7557862420.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b2e392729---77449003205.pdf
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/kapofumuborefiletep.pdf
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/fokuwo.pdf
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/49930780902.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d97snp0aem7tjt430bjincgi0/pigudenu.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evvlb8o9iljoctmt09cok6g336/kosoxatajovibu.pdf
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b1f207d80---xojuvagezitosowavo.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d93d701da---85339558866.pdf
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e106a54a2---57221794190.pdf
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tagiwal.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=root+and+toot
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c45a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC45A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc6c.bin
11edcba3346c2af1f360fcc3dd418dc2683f4c99082a9e78d601e9ee142478bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6C 17248 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010934.bin
7b4709ef0cae09e95706ebf6a79a9f938fa2f0f6db0e02c41090da698a295b61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10934 9748 bytes