Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 061283cc2d191910…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:06:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 12671e94d9c6a73732a67799e2e2aa9a SHA-1: 44e364ffa9ff8cec5d9fac12bff3843c228b0377 SHA-256: 061283cc2d1919101779670c02c0a9ec6b3446c22a8cfc69e854e84b779571f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using numerous distinct hosts with minimal links each, often employing UTM parameters, which is common in phishing and SEO poisoning attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+download+folder+path PDF link annotation
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202109070827309951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1429e6b55daeb8e69a4bda18f4e5e22/fowafituker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/89776798566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbyjoseph.com/uploads/File/10445828922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/97862408359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadondientu-ptp.vn/images/ckeditor/files/6904311195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wotfiles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97510619399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinaval.ru/userfiles/file/sezabetulafoganulexowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/zajixuvorisiburawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewexikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/79089883379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139319178377---xasikazefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/63130034125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/kajuzatigolarilevuwonis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/gopefosenexisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mujuloras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391f1c31d66---22633286839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/wafonidizaxamumibowezedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puluvalogax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/30456888659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaxabc.com/userfiles/file/20210904110719_960732456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.around.hu/files/article/file/55395054582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/bimafajozixafilejoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57894185272.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_off0000b045.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB045 10496 bytes
SHA-256: a5f0a91e7e1c62761bb7584e3ec856412202391ab0db2e887e9c3f199ae4c012
font_01_sfnt_off0000c816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC816 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE028 14448 bytes
SHA-256: a61844da81746a32f2f10dfd45b97ee791c9fef7fb79f96e80c72b5025e16776