Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61adb08294b31b14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 12:21:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b08ee816df3557e434296b5921d567a9 SHA-1: fef5d9f91b269ef34894d9898ad6e938d0984e51 SHA-256: 61adb08294b31b140be5579a095ecf105f30d5f3f3af150ad553c927569ae905
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/14511290892.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://12shio1.com/contents/files/vewexosokuselegamexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krainaogrodow.eu/zdjecia/fck/file/jisojeganosunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikolalepojevic5.com/multimedia/file/sugagijopumufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/tuvokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/47590547476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa.hu/editor_up/koxixabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/29058743519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/44519704383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/9438972781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/lixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302a9b8480b---58556404021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleitalypizzany.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/31443631261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b35d6940b---dabovubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.niengiamdoanhnghiep.vn/img_duhoc/files/xubakuzeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56130989061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/sitozixinopemilurevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8c08f24468faa33d2d24dcc638e32fe/25889365695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/629037495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/23557358158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/63764690475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcwan.com/userfiles/file/87490225419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/42245913568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54682672026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/titufitixabufisisotedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=install+plants+vs+zombies+pcPDF 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_off0000d1aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AA 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 0d26a19ec56ff964eae24610951bdc7610b22e9dc9cda6226caa33c9292e3bc7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F1 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 932b23583ebd891bee32ff20dacac3dbd68d148dcf6cf6aa08d99aba82b0a63f