Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 611fe8c2c5008afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:21:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 47fb9bfce1f9cf0c11a1339a38a93143 SHA-1: 8a74b61e92a8f9f8b04e1ca3fd36c0b946411232 SHA-256: 611fe8c2c5008afeb5074d5e9ecc4518a72cdf283f7403db11631e2b6a4d7034
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 https://funbugs.ie/files/file/favelinotanexeneduzej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b179acd21---37824714435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109050627385632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swapnauraan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawupatuwizimalakufaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/pewaxabobumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/labif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-rubber.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/22386761661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/75448772200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/13670548300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4399945a92f4b7b711b06969396ec807/favifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021090419075932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85ulmu4ud404i2m7afidlbei8h/kaguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68261099113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tupnate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosezogitixuwagotalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613496d5bc697---57855761652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/372a4300763a75d49b429bd347f6cdd6/98801460418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/gebiwifudupozewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofuvolepawupoxenogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nofatrans-int.com/userfiles/file/9144844640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ec6b4cde0---surebuwiruxevuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.phapluatvietnam.com/upload/ckupload/files/50323378966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/41817115611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southerncross-ex.com/images/blog/file/54581088850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/29526562989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=business+environment+book+pdf+for+bbaPDF 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_off00011a5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5B 19136 bytes
SHA-256: d015b5b967e43d9d6b18f664a7484a08b0fc4301f0a8c78efa022d15f0da464c
font_01_sfnt_off00014c88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001649f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1649F 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 712b8f9191a01dd028478e4aac5480d5e5bfe3c3052768c500728f02cbcf4bef