Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61d1cf3cc72a9e70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 21:42:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 7b78e96715c0827aa4d2225d0060719a SHA-1: 975771759676dfbaef06d75b913a91b1ff1a6bbd SHA-256: 61d1cf3cc72a9e70efa148cf929b1517f20a09e95fd805b68f5a90720d3985c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+use+independent+measures+design PDF link annotation
    • http://peter-scherer.de/userfiles/file/21163718434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cbfd1cdf8---soxipegaraganizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/2189494379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/fememidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e183bb50d4---67024669301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18312d7470dad9c937ffa01a7a3e01a3/9679387623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62046120824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovbau.sk/test/userfiles/file/wixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/35587332236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd5e4d85a8c---31108659727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cu7g39002a3q3u65ieu2b7pq77/58041707549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b68fdea6bf---79956712349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/53045187934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/xexitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d9bec98ef279e55235c117ae9be6ba8/likilasope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46074510449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609765d8c3d3d---17122154544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9adb32de46219471a14d8dd3dc010bc/47018496212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvnm4chj6lj1e7pffvtqdjc64v/galepugetojela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607289a87e008---65605987871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os917hn4m8oar5suuot5augegk/xurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/33894412917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2ef0ad85eb---mezaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luvegeziteziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d5147063b7d7212998c0c7528ec8a8c/xaniwafej.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_off0000e8b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B3 10880 bytes
SHA-256: ef8492823445c74111f7b324953192a37f375aeed0574e62e643c99d5adf842b
font_01_sfnt_off00010173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10173 17240 bytes
SHA-256: e4fbe695bf2249229161d0fb415f73e5ef222eb74e4414bf06249e583f28046a
font_02_sfnt_off00012e07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1