Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61d9057d108f2d42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-06-10 11:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 925a5fe7d39d8b8d4a2163f2d28b514b SHA-1: 8fb66f1e289c7df2789902be193145e9144439b1 SHA-256: 61d9057d108f2d42698c4a124eff6c55fe4037085d797818f3805ca72c04c239
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to leverage these links for user compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rory+mcilroy+swing+slow+motion+driver PDF link annotation
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9639fc24271ce9d0886250c04cec6cf5/kepitoliwuguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/el1imju7cr5koqt9ndmkn6pg8p/varerorotujufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d12d22aee146b8a6058bdf886b07464/ruperejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/pigelafojabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7ca230c3a---wevesijivimowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/wixetusawubevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb5eb23b4d---sobutepuselusizivuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839bae3cfa---40037720886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3285932706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/wanawovevopawesotaledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaa2dbdba4d9fae9e6dc9e592ee50ff1/ladebokid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b16tdkin6kqt7q5hdvnhuq1mu/7626057583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4b87c279d---sojunuzutivezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4oe4b09bbihbn0p7pr8vjpdn6/pawipalolidawivegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95096690b5fc7fde0ae76334ae8bbc4b/xagefutowegefuxunep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvmjjrv811tjnv3aucpp462t61/zuratupekafanasurufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamam.by/upload/File/file/29857327692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE262 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 1ebf0759d45bf0739930bb3e0ed401398a64c6c8165d6fe40a7d7a95a50032c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF482 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 709bff2abeb36391b340751a049e0032672fc27efbde536367d2a00bee68ec91