Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61bba8128cb2e3f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 18:17:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 62e4f7600f6a6820b06094d70f04e48e SHA-1: 7ec11812474c16434939c5a784aae1d2172930d2 SHA-256: 61bba8128cb2e3f662cb4ccba73a92cecf81a3cc6fad5631c27b0d0bfc54ac6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious or phishing sites. Heuristics indicate the PDF is designed as a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wellington+phone+book PDF link annotation
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/36729732975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614270d70bd74---zofutenupudaxixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balassalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mutewarokebafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaseguroseprevidencia.com/fotosempresa/files/nivujizena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/ditokowuxizagitamadomobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dges.in/userfiles/file/55570134561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtle.net/ckupload/files/pobedezobejiworowozuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/fumazotetepofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vp-dmsh.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumivubugafepagoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416d100ff04---50763717083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/93418390371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novena99.com/uploads/files/202109012209173314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/18781700636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/rutolerefozasamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/mafoweben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/59631731986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/60287608531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsneotek.com/ckupload/files/bumedozonozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/87951767865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6ca5f3651---85470550426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sagarexpress.com/userfiles/file/giwonifupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/lamepumafosotusebidatipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21680144098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54348757291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/48742689175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/pirilomevasugonagunusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/75675053696.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_off0000b75c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB75C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF73 10328 bytes
SHA-256: ab515eec8d4a66cec20ee58c40854fa4d6bd789e4f8c7bc1a085fb63d453ed63
font_02_sfnt_off0000e65e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65E 14952 bytes
SHA-256: a663553e9b81e3355546caed242a9bc173fda4bd4e2271e3ed5665d0ba781e2f