Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61c7e6552eedbe04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:15:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: bce13260cd7bfd544332f500cf2d309e SHA-1: 5e5345c94dd2b41a15589a21e8f4e248f3925130 SHA-256: 61c7e6552eedbe046f5e0d0bb0c26effaa3c4fafe0c69feb31eb1bf222ca8919
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious link farm designed to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://jfe.hk/userfiles/sofiwasowebobugejamune.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608872ff92bd9---zukujanujimixozasixinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/zevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/248ffc5154e1e8337453b9befb5963fc/97594807660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0njkjq6rv93gct9j3847pn35b4/rifelerixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3a9eb126b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/tifobulisatawuwuzumajase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091294d1de80---kosezobakefeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourgans.org/userfiles/files/tagexawerenurajepejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jouezadomicile.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/wamomit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdndits1kb8a510umo4kd164p1/24435122754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/fusajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42a8f4ec7b---wufofemisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents//files/gulilidigoxikegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3a0d63e78---97201067880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/64279333408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93fcfc0861---42354234854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/85482004793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c53017c5d4---33159844280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbc346ce2d9fe54d9a33123d20677cee/vufezisopilazonomipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk2oan13aafmd8gktp4at36joj/lapobeniwededidepufanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b49996a99---rutulevebuvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=comunicacion+interauricular+neonatos+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED84 10912 bytes
SHA-256: b8a390c32cb480689e390211c2154968bf70b290ef5d7503ae8d8ff73ec8e211
font_01_sfnt_off000106c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C8 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 40b75f9182d4b8c22158bec3c01558c38a3ddf5c55b4245ff8e0cb6138c1431c
font_02_sfnt_off0001340c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1340C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1