Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61a129f35b023d89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:23:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c23b01935e649140112a2e9ac28934ad SHA-1: e04bae427748ce21e581ccb5b57dedf7c669cdb4 SHA-256: 61a129f35b023d892fcd1b8c65e8235436041ddac684d30967687330b3ce2e4e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URI heuristics point towards techniques used for initial access and potentially further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c6c08acc7d68ba7661551586ea2ed24/83981203596.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/2982217798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/6997238854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe9msbt0heeqbd1d4rlh9vuape/68834869494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/50660587665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50973189699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babda098c0a---xutunilovivonuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/55700732257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ad5fb302c---16777413612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/68377434417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03eb52d29df8da98818ef604a0fba9e6/walipujukopumanujujowib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210810_125614.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/gomakobefolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7796100225c156a5816594a76a16604a/zilokirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etenindex.nl/images/uploads/desetiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/59708108293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irollee.com/userfiles/file/renog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dsami.org/uploadfilefiles/44121520714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607193dece686---pakofawukaxisaxepusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kupigekoxosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6416a8a01a22c80435eab388bb41e3ea/44552289128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098674718d24---8727591290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=astrology+malayalam+books+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000148df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148DF 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 5e36efc066560cdfa271a51ffef1bf40c27ca12dfcdbefb5501d1ea4d7a35142
font_01_sfnt_off0001619b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1619B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000179ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179AD 21796 bytes
SHA-256: e2de55d95b20929f027abc7861dc02d32949a50d76349567873832086a2ccd26
font_03_sfnt_off0001b233.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B233 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc