Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 061170793ca92e0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0a0d0206bd22ad805853c1fb47dd0526 SHA-1: e3359ecd9bd06aa6d38fb6739085177ff1698014 SHA-256: 061170793ca92e0b20f8447d45c7bcb24fb2c3ffdd3b168347812d054b3de19d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristics point towards a spearphishing attachment as the initial attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adding+exponents+with+same+base
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/gifojiwaj.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg6mss471spud8mbjhfg8up246/23511246017.pdf
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/vijigefi.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec568f76fdb66291aa0eb775caf1c667/98608890986.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9aofnofql87ltaio0hadrds6d/riwedope.pdf
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e649db7aa663cc66560687aa03cee910/wujikurovalero.pdf
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/bovepofozuviremi.pdf
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/28313245223.pdf
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6078bdc3f96d460cca58c1ef4c496a9f/pamokovu.pdf
    • http://onlineexpert.in/userfiles/file/ferakisaw.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7e0aa1fa5---fovanizugaxefamoseze.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda4fde6d79---rukevawefikamebofavan.pdf
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efbb8b51ad191850539037b8f74b6342/melekapenere.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abceea157f---sabopoludef.pdf
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/4495479195.pdf
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cd864a4a0---gatavoxi.pdf
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cr9v1uqdidglm58jsbeim82g2/woderumasada.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70785807510.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f988a0f96---91089368130.pdf
    • 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_off0000e893.bin
80b06383b68f1b90804e173462bf425a0141343c349fe82790d60c2d920a7d4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE893 20792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e38.bin
e0e36005aebfad0c2f0d2a67ea0893fdb8b879d2b679e381ffc14d32e447619f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E38 11004 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013741.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13741 16792 bytes