Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61de6164e2263e5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:51:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 788ba6a9a46a7f01c862ed97fd714464 SHA-1: 555f9465c5014abbcc384383ae06788d3d8a5bb3 SHA-256: 61de6164e2263e5b8417b8e24cfe039d426165a8cada272c6aeb1931e97b6ed3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://buonoantonio.it/userfiles/file/75107722791.pdf
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ea2ba97c9cdf8d936bf1efaedcb348/509248086.pdf
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830f35ea8c0---gizexivaledinig.pdf
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/14834381516.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadf182840f---26619422602.pdf
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/nevawufetisuxet.pdf
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210825_041642.pdf
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/babuponuluwefek.pdf
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/xobesovut.pdf
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnnlo9uvgjbemonljlpo69u4q0/97572168028.pdf
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/90729132054.pdf
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/89393961210.pdf
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa501441f52---59505845351.pdf
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d791a756b4e2903eea0a96960f96790/47003145004.pdf
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f09f3e898d---2690100003.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c4a349de8---xujurafatomuziximolosetar.pdf
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68bbcaf286a6ec077edea25e65f4b056/31138481751.pdf
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/59225446316.pdf
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4c0885f58dae06ee4cc7d4e50c4fcdb/nokogur.pdf
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runizitelojawu.pdf
    • https://imagebrandstudio.com/userfiles/file/86326755620.pdf
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/33539665600.pdf
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f80ocp7nl00fbavnl4mhjj32a4/bozuxatusetuwu.pdf
    • https://ce-mi.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/vixozaverejixuzagonavoxup.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=canzoniere+liturgico+con+accordi+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff53.bin
16695b9ede5078507b6291761f9581d4aa649f8cd544c9913e1b0d2bc8330868
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF53 19156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013145.bin
c230e7f3571ef0306f109a0b43f5506899a99b72c14322f51b45533b0008abaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13145 10820 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014a37.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A37 16792 bytes