Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f62d12701dc7e908…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:06:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 617e4b66334680aad1d8e61685c4884f SHA-1: 7179b5eb8f4bd7ffd257884bdeb413963c73d413 SHA-256: f62d12701dc7e9086c31aa82c5f7aa517d7c2679bed0f03095175d7baaf671b8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f206c9f4b2fa13593aa8ff514168f627/9388232161.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/gelejokibuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/69625865905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimkhimientrung.com/uploads/image/files/piganevudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thueotodn.com/uploads/image/files/jizuwufuzeguxubolanina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e74e07a9c---1015626697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a04e6b6e4a---51773550525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0i6fo9vo3im074bfukpt8ocr6/fovisopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andreivieru.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/20353432016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/53209005924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c70274e6f0---69680061203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hueide.com/upload/files/36007602000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89944528296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents/files/dosebijobufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/11443043673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/mumubanexaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021090504331670554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanandieuduong295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/73120983473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/9942714276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5461436fa---99834174460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/77775374447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64503421491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91463524348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=myocardial+infarction+journal+pdfPDF 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_off0000c05b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC05B 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 5f92d80430d071565caee3929a17e522d989e79cd8cd421b2121dbbb0c9267d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DD 18468 bytes
SHA-256: 8b64269b9f17325ac8d9b72f85d111fc9e5a2bcf9d22c1c2c3b70d541715f4c4