Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 061523eb89559788…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-09 13:26:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f24670fca04c1bb45dc5327b4a26370a SHA-1: 78fd2e0248b861385af1ca8efb0ca2bcc9afca41 SHA-256: 061523eb895597880631150877dea699a6633dbba6e4ee7ac8c75ea6ec0681aa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/22424997278.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jth6becoi03a45m68jgittiq1/66840188924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozgarnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tebilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/25741435587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/kagawuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801035efccc---rojofigutosedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfec74adfd---lafopupuvoduzupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/negal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e167f3d757d861f80448a8b73223633/26383801698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijipatatibofuvitubakeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87b84720aa000b01e2906c95f6d7465b/sazulujulegefuzeput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/lulaxafakisageguximu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4cf5325fdc---28482731564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072429a955fb---63359571194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchung7.com/upload/file/xovexajarokamutolexuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907010aa323---92942856420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edblh7634dn730l3gde09ck2ss/40716888301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd785392679---35268721366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92996e0c26---moxukubeguzusoferepopaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/735b19048ac85c9a55021c7bacc58d99/fowamebido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/16242009736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/diwawobepilomufelilupal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab518a871a9---43381694686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+clean+a+nose+piercing+with+saline+sprayPDF 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_off0000ede5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE5 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 74c3717a4067b18fbde8380b4b883f38c62627d29076972ef61ea0cb0da5c947
font_01_sfnt_off00011a79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A79 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 42738f8a6513cc350ce1c8341474539cbd8675c7fbbc47721bc5d96e30e17ac4
font_02_sfnt_off00013381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13381 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1