Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61ced86b4be2972d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-06-17 16:29:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 29064b763210f25465b9a8953decf4cf SHA-1: 5b5dd9d357442bab179f2c85750e8499a8cb0bd5 SHA-256: 61ced86b4be2972d7ac50284011fea26ceefd44b1b2e8ac55e62e496df76643f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. Heuristics suggest these links are hosted on disposable or compromised CMS upload storage, increasing the likelihood of phishing or malware delivery. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10gn2k761j96i9b0f8o3pks6b6/80409168256.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/17175484952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab3919c16d3c9faacb458746451198fc/vifefujalaradasavepozozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce836312af---baxebuzoxiwegoxogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2acd6df35c0ada9cc24398bbf198dad/pazoxiwavifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d16970723---28990080012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c4f6a91e7---vimubanurinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/roreriwanaxudoripumefato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7puht12grln6hl8e53e5h239qq/90752242326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/74085674947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcsl26kksbotcsk8r5o22r28hd/nukexebaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3c31d29a11d19712efd664455126408/73371703283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7c54577e75a4cd9c706efbb1a0aa75/woworib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a8931a1f3d9e08d129c78f94e453087/tusamurazonitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd1a533df8c---juvojefevoxare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkeoh7ea181ogvcfvm1v0lps9f/wobebabimubijepove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b116b28fa---30532023907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=logos+pathos+ethos+worksheetPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fdf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF4 4780 bytes
SHA-256: 4e1bab63365010fc193973f83ba137b5e1f39322984185352e74a2a541cc842c
font_01_sfnt_off00010e61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E61 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 6032c2d5f6b7de5a94d480a4538f06efd0ed89c29d8311e45c806cef401d0111
font_02_sfnt_off0001320b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1320B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3