Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd62f5af48484611…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-05-10 15:20:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: f86eb0681119b6f2a86e5aa8e6cde719 SHA-1: 0318aef78f95987dd29bd1b67c154074855a863f SHA-256: fd62f5af48484611e61767f2c48f0987da3cc76bbad4560505e1de9b596ea2eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a link farm for distributing cracked software. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing and trojan activity. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings suggest a phishing attack disguised as a software download lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aspen+hysys+free++with+crack PDF link annotation
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268560020b8aec856763aa0d2a7628b9/javukurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a63422a51---17652862026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecbc17e61f497df9a1af7561698055c5/45265157868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4g8fbcva053ir9noikr128e5g1/64562749632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/zubipunenararaxogutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3b72ad8827e9a952d093c1347ddbefd/wizuzafofawivaguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dfd4e86f314c593c2523f36e478e5c6/vamusigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607051750ed61---3476819832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd7e6f3d4667608128bef9e1b8c9c7d6/17277342073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j09b3sb0rctomlge5bpbg1jce1/34693030684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67497215009d0c996712c1053b39d2a7/ruxagixegenonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jim1v5393mop878cdbijpgmu47/34872284039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210504002738775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c2c38ee44e7970682201d550180c0d9/durezadiluduperig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i276bjo8l7adqb8ub5skvqh71r/voguwubujojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/30581690082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e75a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE75A 5320 bytes
SHA-256: a3f2a23bba0c073f638a2193e94156299a555cfcef57e531fb9e033962e08024
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98A 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 181bb62b07064bf19cae16214298f341439f3c14aee999cc4404d06084043e81