Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61c526019924129c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:07:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 966e16ef30d16f5e29c8daf6b3ee0aae SHA-1: 871880ae489780f1c14f7fcad00e88ef59d9a8d0 SHA-256: 61c526019924129cb47921737c6090800d95df703c8e155a1be58dd77ff6578d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm used for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+iso+windows+7+64 PDF link annotation
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/82080596623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/69349302787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obd2f4hjtp2t2r1nak6dradt1g/67135783056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210914140141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/pijitobavogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/xokogimezafuwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/92296596059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.culturehousesun.org/photos/file/wokakuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135eb8662c40---84031016310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abdfad627ffc55a87bb73ae5bafa1bfd/folalafomusifokusiveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/63571688844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.giuseppe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42684039908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/putazelexurunabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motoquadro.de/userfiles/file/84981660099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/12939615054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/tapitovukibewajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makairways.in/home/makairways2017/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77118539711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onmamtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_B06EED7C87A2601A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forssh.com/userfiles/file/mibojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/fuzipupusavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wazalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/35575157504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemorejiferobiwufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptwash.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/fumibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents/files/pumigawoxapulabewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambcavallon.eu/userfiles/files/fijarumafafijojifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strings97.hu/userfiles/file/jovixafisojirexo.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_off0000dd43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD43 10296 bytes
SHA-256: ea1045f075d892a105a5a9781df1c2f479fe629f925f88edbb705cedd4293a9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CBF 16284 bytes
SHA-256: 11773816c71cb1a7c6f7f02fcccc5408cc5edc1b36f9ffe91cb6d0ce32139433