Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 616559169d873c4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 09:45:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 559ea1c295e3d0834d38fe9d83c1cfa8 SHA-1: 79af04ad4e090a1fd6699895717c1e136d7996b8 SHA-256: 616559169d873c4b89ed4f9e93d1a64af680c01e2aa3ae056b2e302d68e73587
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=merle+pitbull+puppies+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • http://optimaglobal.net/ckupload/files/90229406552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607973ea1121a---bufuraded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7ae0bf98f10bd6338220f147d354cdc/3914188155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/gewevatizivojuzopiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starkhigh1972.com/clients/d/dd/dd83d6d7846a033806cdb512e10d7d7c/File/7129823197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc066c3792e---42856401169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/jubexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ba65bf2b7df51e2861405199fc7dfa/jofilerixapojitavitizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/427bc0908d3c26cd1b1be5f8a58b3de0/gudixujidirizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f4286ee384c2f36a593106c81dada8/6419674854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/lijiwepapizujodafiraxuvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/5341412123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/tunadewokewunotedosalexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb26fe05e62---wawemato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839751b87b---nuwanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h585c7ip417scqq1fn7pbrlft9/gozuromi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/092e0922aca8726324c6f0b1fae2a6a0/37628836919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f606833f67e5afa09f0a9a5b8075ae2a/zudobixudimejoturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slippersymposium.com/clients/875641/File/43067830676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/97350628360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/farefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c40e9b470b8f76eb3a9968c60630d56c/vurazobazuzasuzifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/guntoskc1kj4h924elvu0krjj2/komek.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off00010804.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x10804 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 660d66900f002c5d2237d94280b42d0e62d51de53ae88a0912883d9c9d20d079
font_00_sfnt_off0000f049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF049 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 1984594e184219ff9f318359c9c5f1354a57f2e673ce2919cfd212064e417557
font_02_sfnt_off000124a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A4 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 40536fc73ab56dad5f33b7511e90c6ef61d67b0374ab14ab7a4a5cabb803ad80
font_03_sfnt_off000153ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1