Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 611c33dc2d8e39e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-05-23 13:33:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c9e087512aa39df873b6b4fe26259c65 SHA-1: ee278d37acae30deeb698aa6adb6a96b16ca0fd0 SHA-256: 611c33dc2d8e39e51d3940ca407e71e65c39d2872cf54cb621d9ae587a8cbeb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f55072e533---19691095322.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgmfpcm1su9aiejusv3dv9961p/dotesoxepipotatazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltt6fuvl4u05com7vc5hlivs02/92479504794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d2b7defae---pijijorajofatijimegabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5ae07eabe---joroxoxugifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/laju5g1uq43c3qkpu8l927gaq4/duxifomige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kh38iihnd10j87024v3q8200ku/jenunevuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f29851b801---17463062096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3siqqmp7tmmkevabv4h82a8n9/69125938081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe96f3c4b21bf49711f0235523537bb4/memusodumezofomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0m225hgqo3ougi7j7en9ll5p7/rexoximafivuferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8c5886153ea144d79126ccf546c850d/zaluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607432d365ec5---95363817377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/laluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2asj6urbr7v8j02grjjastf2p3/38754965032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/084t13pke8d6va7k3ndh8anmo2/woragoxunopigepisodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=proceso+de+elaboraci%25C3%25B3n+de+una+investigaci%25C3%25B3n+documental+resumenPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF751 5596 bytes
SHA-256: ace82d74044877ee4aa13abcc02d784809f1838be59b0d3491f2d6ff43ac63d5
font_01_sfnt_off00010a0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A0E 11868 bytes
SHA-256: 4b73a33d3249cd224a25a671b7f0cfbfff03d9296f294e0aae3e17e68d73eca7