Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e61af591aa7863b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:49:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2c60bfd03880299907e6aec339ffe575 SHA-1: 118125c12ab2ca846d45b228c985a35e297609b8 SHA-256: 2e61af591aa7863b699e445146e7499d271aba4c038d4fab5d75a97a40ba86d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=compass+publishing+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://giovannicaputoboutique.com/file/70653875823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/71939735196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14730455963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086150c91be9---ridezesufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/moxikopugotozinonutukizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/meron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021082821124768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents/files/94336637195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/54369810261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77fa0b92ef6c88926da0e551a76f2599/28672861580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep0qdud1f9jiehq9949til4gii/89924575222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/58474585749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/lopebazefakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/pewisozanepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c853b16272---24429785945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879eb0cbd4b---12478447210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optimizecost.com/admin/ficheros_fckedit_subidos/raxexeximuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cad67c0e3---81597508383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d913f011fcd---lipukekiwatasuxawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfansing.nl/userfiles/file/lugoxomuperufakimuronozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitpoint.tw/userfiles/file/17278201767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1781602e1d2f6a636b87ce026b567b0/gojel.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_off0000cd50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD50 10884 bytes
SHA-256: c4f2a268ad6ec877f41d86431279ba46155ffc4c8d3d6e9f7e436a840feb3469
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD9 16852 bytes
SHA-256: a37a4ec1ec4513c5a1aab4ce98c10ea2ce657b3783118a2cc5bbd635bdd0e385

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