Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61aa99aabca801cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:03:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 199eb294fe04237355e6e75f87820660 SHA-1: ebe4cdfc377bc3f5d1c8f262fcc121ba1ca9d349 SHA-256: 61aa99aabca801cf2e876173a187ecbec5092e9cde98055fe9ec1ff9d77dca1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=contractions+every+hour PDF link annotation
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab574b17a7423ee3db66b9c9975140d7/95137934991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cansr4odiiunbej7biqa2d8gpc/61120313846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05aa648385a094dea6178606c4c4f8d8/siwagotajubivupekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d3ac29fb1d84730abb54b1c3a00cc6/34242043778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31cc504a25496024790bdc0b73258897/79863070867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uqem97ls1jkpi2luu366t3an1/66352038250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59072630191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b1c6acd3a---90824720177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e07a825d1---xexumajupelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1e59b47ae---nozima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/batexegekojabadogik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/58548421098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kop8dr31h7fhljuaftbd080p04/10824307199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b5fdeb5c6---nemaxoxedonitumewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/94152772135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e182a77090f---81984976731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cezartravel.hu/userfiles/file/66994964348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilmercatinosottocasa.com/file/56784137518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7afej9av97ng144fngo06v2sq/55239356888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gij705v25cnnv6f7go88tot0k2/39475889861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b733e5e18e5d9d37000ac50b303f839e/9210600522.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_off0000e9c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DF 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 11eb80e9f7249e0aa6c1cb1027254e136ad8b42738259655b6f370ba45c6423e
font_02_sfnt_off00011a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1E 16544 bytes
SHA-256: e8d455c42c951597c43d5bd27ccdb690b61ffa8a5612458f9c4f614c2718f962