Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61243f72e5a50d57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:31:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ef0709184029368820a947522fbace66 SHA-1: db0dc17dcf4171a1db117ad9f4b919669ad5f260 SHA-256: 61243f72e5a50d57acdc16c6d4738385fc526baa4989f00d280cfb586b52d5e2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links, including those pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=torrent+stream+controller+full PDF link annotation
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb9069552f---92615231460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/942fd643ab84a2884e33f868c044e6fa/tulobupofezapovesov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29452350883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kujorewifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/74376128245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361d3f28057---sugosekokikado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be98ecfad7---69268821954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents/files/48286075582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopassarotti.it/userfiles/files/pagubizavigowopevonopazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c51cb06ba---vemikalopenajakokufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pereplanirovkaoblast.ru/pict/file/funujepoxizuweluzeganek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/kefewogabiruketoxapixelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.net/userfiles/file/45797453296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140738d2a21f---52539678850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/20532541887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artattack-concerts.de/files/file/94067780007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/95952732448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/29151539299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutritie-metabolism-sanatate.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tokinowarowutozogukupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/zedogifoxomurerukuxijef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gddfboiler.com/uploads/files/64844272366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/xigibupumizakosodi.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_off0000f15a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10971 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 4171c1be080fa4edd5bb4f34e2b324b8cdac24c1f46d701e3a6ff814e836e119
font_02_sfnt_off00012141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12141 18252 bytes
SHA-256: fe0d84b5eebc02f70e16a6f707ff01f6b54ab39f7280129e80d772226eaf531f