Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61465994ead485b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:21:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 68c8f62cc290b0673e8ab5588b09e89e SHA-1: 10ea3004109b9a07739aa63e8b6ed7471fc5d33c SHA-256: 61465994ead485b1bf9b63c09c095bf3a38e471b68550fbfd49085567513b6f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate a likely intent to redirect users to malicious sites, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22756054813.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76fad45ecd588e7fc5c4a762ff51b8ae/devojerotokufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a4c8f265b---viguroxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf9065f3fc1a580647ef1ed6790fe41b/reroxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7o1dho0elggs0srfvs5lov2ta2/46009623212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/doxavosodubezajekamaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/wilagevagixetogaxana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/10426520302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa08c66f072---dirogowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da223f79ea4fee37686f839863bc912d/93342851420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/872006a416137abb3696b77c332fe915/17700573271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893aef5db40---42305967117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b727a3ecc0---96430674088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c72c3ca94---poguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/regex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2d7a3f4236ec8067c506bcc0e1de2b4/bigidukajixujowumomuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607002ae9d366---29858896096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/libulosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=comprehensive+physics+lab+manual+class+12+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000ffa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA0 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 34d4d0441fa161905924c4c37bb435c5fe3a5340a74b1f7cc737c4dc5a44fd9f
font_01_sfnt_off00011a93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132A5 18088 bytes
SHA-256: b371d3bb9ec71f2441071b75418a312d2eef17ed6c574924d1d174d8d8fc6408