Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61060c4b6f015aca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 02:29:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6e97aec135ced88370059049e5cb3b85 SHA-1: b6c546842890458a87f4fea618910f1e5888575d SHA-256: 61060c4b6f015aca41764c7f9c8452113fff5abde73c334c51c216642b2eea2d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple unknown URLs and a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/1298693661.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/55725716284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/vokevizaborujafalawasum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/40784796208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af5a0d4963---bufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/xazinowatoforuvaleguruzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/32263503523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://softwebstar.com/shop/userfiles/file/18697452426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f98403c603---91447160702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successalpha.team/upload/files/lamikotufinapokewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/pibewofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuttotop.com/userfiles/files/37675648289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nm-union.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64782208040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/2125223959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/sakegefazugojoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tilowafiletemejegeranub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiajihlava.cz/UserFiles/File/valopiwopinadiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/86737512595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulada.by/upload/editor/files/81710983245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6a3fcfbbc2dde0b0e2b1fbd46ada78a/48207896338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/rasilosalonufuvosowolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/96292292388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613642e7c5627---73672630656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f07eee32bc699cc1a8943821a752f42e/1943621095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=picsart+mod+apk+for+pcPDF 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_off0000d301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD301 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 47410ae70600e200c6c899dc6ca9e48f229fb79cc4504164e79fde11c94d7a8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10351 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 4fef6226bd13eac61ae2d1f4431ee8fee73efe44204a12d9dd69e99a129aa01c