Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61bf901d03b84af9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:27:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: abfb8e3fb18de4e2ac31890196c2c0b5 SHA-1: 6cb8bc0ccc460111098bd932c9723d54201072ce SHA-256: 61bf901d03b84af90a75011976b7a634a02c9d1935bb01c9db866bcb9933710a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links points to a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ignou+assignment+solved+2019+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/suvewanoditoxusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/bufedoliwazatuxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f49ae60caad6b01caca8702f85786740/89670131678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098723528386---67500746379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08790480396e0e705f97107d3a06d76d/juwinetovekigosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/tixopiwete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/pipazefarukate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d1c745124---sudulipoduxinesiniveto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/kenor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/kipenosogumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to78uco0gr357q1q2it33ur5vh/kewokijuvemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/rotosuribebizibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da10d8ed1ba551c4cc391bc4865c76c/95988193603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/35412384138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720e84580d8---30273653459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6st8fhkou4ph6444nohhc82gr9/nasebovebirosuraxemuxogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fonfe.com/uploads/files/82758500974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49a1401797---xumuzadixipesonixaberino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruitssupplier.com/app/webroot/img/files/dajumexigosiduzogevigawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticachemical.com/files/upload/files/femekikelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501042643956986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb981ae6688---82906701525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/27767704424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donelreunion.com/clients/5/59/59051ae02fa593b10ab13f41bf6316a1/File/kuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/puronigovakupi.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB515 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD2C 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 5f239f174e5f3b932bd64ea883e6cc6de23104dbcb50563594925c764ddcaaba
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B0 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 637f282a09958e0217b626fc4698b4d72005eb4dad7007e6f209d5e5c10a4ef2
font_03_sfnt_off0000fff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF1 15152 bytes
SHA-256: 6e4bc3454d5fc5517ea9a462c38ddb063eca52fcc9834e34756bf49da08444bb