Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61d5f9c9d6946758…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:15:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 91782a488fce625fb13dc769b9743714 SHA-1: c1ea10c84709f5c3d3e5b2809bb5ee4fa83bec0f SHA-256: 61d5f9c9d69467589c6a504f008c6a46b6d9aad94a9655f887acb98460017442
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised websites, with several URLs hosted on WordPress installations. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into interacting with the document and potentially visiting malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2593da46abbb479e6f5d09f8d7beeee4/83195602873.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/49209789410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19377725396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ksoh10hi2hn5t6qlu2bpgpafr/97848430088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/9314744608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9806ba7209b714a040ab43f97601071d/fofutilokavikugupepupite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d3b073924f2d47a070b37db4fb23d3/watelibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c49411bbfe---50376750696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47beda852f---xuzenekotibajejenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849532d0fff---resimurasijufedoras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada8e54a9b6---girilami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bbf490e8f---loguwoguniwapakodalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/funodididilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poornasreehomeoclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29262289544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b87e78f28bd814fda485c7ddb6c8120/84637100955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/65150221041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s29p4147tfpvfnpmes4thl2lam/dojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd634e941f---dusetukojukotoxesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/nugedewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3a84a754a---80625232111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/30792756514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e41c22e84fec4a7195b639437a28fa2f/perasuwifigugiterokorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b88f66a5cf---19207111148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=accounting+basic+terms+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_off0000f348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF348 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 1b0907c1ff45fa6bacc74a587b52e11acd87083c7abb76180a2a4878d75cde23
font_01_sfnt_off00012108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12108 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 700e0c9a9827896823177fb74afbf39b57595299c3d4b49fb317ee4e3981c744
font_02_sfnt_off00013abb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ABB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1