Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61a048e6197c5692…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 02:16:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 740c3cb496df7b41603f95db62538ee2 SHA-1: 1ffa683811010eef3e9ed3194dc74268f5bc6a09 SHA-256: 61a048e6197c5692a8714f98ab3a84f872e8c4e5ee41ebe8761f7003ed436b33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious content or phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkiuq1l7nl8vg8kei3hji6f3i0/53561204001.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/joq2s8mcjambjbuoc97iu1ihin/94888091440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f64c04e408ed141dc6bf30d167475bb/34137180850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samuelben-horin.com/userfiles/file/fuzifojowufovuvuraditafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/bifisodurepugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021051919381118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e31ccd925---sexujanezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace2ac4b06b---95078990098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/733f1e4d5619cf9a996e8d63a8b92454/webulevufiwexuziresega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bosch-service-center.ru/uploads/files/sitavekozoxagisekurubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/2776296679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pututisifijurebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/72330252884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33481272130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/44082371729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/44802649082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f09bc67425---5891071718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parmalab.it/userfiles/files/digod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/nugugogaxipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntq0sro6g2uqf5qntnlgo808nm/morexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985aa1bea5a---14613938857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/80135870019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liffeyartefacts.com/fckimagefile/file/juserofedudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=12+rules+of+composition+in+photographyPDF 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_off0000ec7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC7A 16748 bytes
SHA-256: b1b8036b11e016a514825f5f9088a2f43694f46ca59e87b9ac5c9de835a14b5f
font_01_sfnt_off000117dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117DD 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 4bb5ec20d73afdcff566f3edc61afb44cf4c8d14240b7a20f113eb289763c790
font_02_sfnt_off00013217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13217 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1