Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 061a52e5dcd4f51c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:50:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cef284731219f9974102f8adc7197449 SHA-1: 1eb028f87e7c564d7d8c08bc3d54dbfafb1f1db8 SHA-256: 061a52e5dcd4f51c1fcff504d5293206fd24d00c42fe332fe84d29f71276ba0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/wiwozudubo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/vubepuseteku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/vujatebakijoduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vconsole.com/ckfinder/files/zarebumufuguzuvusevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/713f868f88f925b773fc9a69cb5ee8ef/tinodiwodajevofanidota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/lovibanirominasazodebapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsevolozhsk.mebel18.com/uploads/files/rukisuxakigozevemavoteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilikigutajuwutifupinajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soccerauquebec.com/userfiles/file/93661781278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npcbalkan.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20126183572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/88696986208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatachau.vn/webroot/img/files/vizujelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161448f52930c2---45039732805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88147018830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9e76cdeb6---tejoxujanoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tacchigroup.com/public/thread/risorse/file/zagugabirovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atem.sciara.eu/public/upload/file/bawaratewenakagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/98895499147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19250906986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tainanrup.longi.tw/uploadfiles/files/20210904_054443_6840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onelove.cz/file/zamukagajisazirapotinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/19543842486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150007.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210910191116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/72190721490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33583560298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+sims+ppssppPDF 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_off0000b2c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2C7 9848 bytes
SHA-256: e6088d6c03a60ef41f36710ce3db3d07b416b87497f8c09f75a6b9fcc6eef830
font_01_sfnt_off0000c868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC868 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e07a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07A 14972 bytes
SHA-256: d8d0a4dd8e6f106049c5050f46871722cd00fd29a0b8f008c85b4eaebda56b44

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