Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61295c7b6d2a59e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:41:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0c082f577e72b85ac025f4af4ff90c09 SHA-1: e38df85485ca6a36c667e27a816f284721b81216 SHA-256: 61295c7b6d2a59e61725cff2bd313d4e23c6566babe986821a352fa19f5d49db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The file's purpose appears to be directing users to these external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+good+substitute+for+quark PDF link annotation
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/ligogowepojewurolugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b4a55b0f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/024o2n8pejthlk8hmt33eb79s3/40504304218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fcc9b5570---99716248598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a4b02e87daac7627e3e2e3bc88b3e32/10105934560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c06b98e170---tusapage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44e37c1fd4fc0f62fd0aafdec957ed77/58245156209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/46615116197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50027594f119750f910cfec8ad862500/9349062523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a076bbe245877fc8e12e410670634c/viposowikugevuzugitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/linepitosekisiluzone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c74fd66d882ddc1888fc795986c04d53/44676004073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a66c1dcdb99e9201545c5b9c6a06b7fb/84162153664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/jobuxuvopakowevopudugila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fb4f5f4e5---78956770286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5b33df9fa---ligojovozufiwiretagasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da871bcd485c15316515cdb92823661/funurasedozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esnl0k9i991s6fqa48l5dj6117/lekalisawogasubewutivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h767df2kj962ftl6t41jqbt6m2/gupuxirufurasakutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vieclamketoan365.com/upload/files/meruzotakixifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d52ac2814fc4c641b6b8a1908e8fc54d/lenejan.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_off0000e7df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF6 10956 bytes
SHA-256: d4754a03d29843756020253f4a96f79325102b44cc9c994755b8d14da2b1b5fd
font_02_sfnt_off0001190b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1190B 17312 bytes
SHA-256: e1b663f06a17904ba050302deed8e843312cd1fa4079e8d9378eddfa2d976919