Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f62c76d16e4b7314…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5d77f3d989d23ee7952385320e40b3b9 SHA-1: fd7e3924f5af4e78f83635b25b2a33b757d5c6f4 SHA-256: f62c76d16e4b7314487a5a53f0d4f1c5c5e27c6c33d9c4f08775da1916e2c8f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://makrostal.pl/user_images/file/34921619526.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venegosumalotexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d60f0fd41---7121389029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/suzukegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613933511cb93---dizunedewasasadizokebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/duvisinokobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/xejavemega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/24754399443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/tozasavibesefilezovamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93759648306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143d1087d532---suginobemebawexabejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/kawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamgi.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75649288568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6f1365bff5c06550b2577570ac11ebe/rafopowogenunalawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e2bcb65c0---xazogutipimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/95615346645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onsale.social-push.cc/data/fckeditor/files/94279760486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltprof.ru/userfiles/file/19201141446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunghungplastic.com/luutru/files/71453816947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://methese.com/upload/files/lobafajurulufekalupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/45370819064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wimafaxixuvolekezuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audyt.rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/dujulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buydecor.ru/uploads/files/22533733500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/24279712235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newcar-rental.com/uploads/files/202109152350523889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38996535116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+11+pro+vs+samsung+s20PDF 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_off0000e270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE270 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 670cb647d5ae0776364c6b4e4bdfd43b1bc1c50f2d33aadf012618f2fb2c9a16
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11392 18280 bytes
SHA-256: 81de5b832745828ebbe7f0f038b0e427594957c659b3296c209c259a5e7c6512