Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f62e39d267532002…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:33:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f608f8fa3d60b96d24b83639ed128c9b SHA-1: 05cac4810a3455278688245aa30bcef52f5237d0 SHA-256: f62e39d267532002f1aa53ce7acd54afe7b7e3487b63cd052373310a60bd72b4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to external URLs, which are numerous and varied, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple compromised and disposable domains indicates a pattern of evading detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=handy+usb+tethering PDF link annotation
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/75868213778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c24301e839---97041189351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/tuxawututafonodipanegive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144bd59708d3---95257705271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/dofumumuxiligexutejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/6308848463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/69576049983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.net/calisma2/files/uploads/namifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liceoadultos.juniorcollege.cl/userfiles/files/23433793969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptkas.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/kibafujudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/72911260840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents/files/danijujeduwilupogamowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/waromol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sskundal.com/userfiles/file/labupezujoguridupezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef30cea1d5332de737d1b649eed50a4/xifazutewebejipawetido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhatuogz.com/uploadfile/file/bexoruwomos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/momijawerinuvixovabozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/71685423004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d8be6a0e2d2b72170f8fe68e5bd82fe/kulogejafigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservativista.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51709476248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fabd07397d3cb5957b04f3976452c4d4/52569254880.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F3 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 780bcc1be8292cadeb124dbb275e02e582fc0820bbf5230da8481913940e5c1b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f233.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF233 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 8280d3ed2f93fec4577f0d64f846fd2d88ac243ca71c0c9a2940f49d01a98174
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1