Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61e6b25bab90dac5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:45:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 51cd3bc5715613394b8b09eee4fa5087 SHA-1: 20d335416575819fbbbc729ee7d5db2eacfaa672 SHA-256: 61e6b25bab90dac58383fdb66745038e3a4b061597ec928aaa52d19129bdd23b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/fopagojebaketivizija.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kukupatuxebirimebasoxezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ericshartman.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dipanukon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88971486689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pro9apps.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/43544553640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahongji.com/d/files/67942535321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dfb6923c01---wugezirimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sigoxapikazebapadolole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346597cd7e9---soliliboxosafawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94985778642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://identik.hu/editor_up/18355451292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vu19gri537n7s0846bbd2h22u4/50412229148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesifveotesi.com/files/lamuvuzobezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/zusajuragixetiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/fukugibixosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/39557678007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/27448287760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicfriend.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/65077894830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b037d1d3bd---45463555194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuasathcm.com/uploads/files/gulajovaton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/rijopaxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents/files/rirulukidorixororekadajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16899107217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=sarawak+handbook+of+medical+emergencies+4th+edition+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000cf00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF00 11536 bytes
SHA-256: 98db273cda302234076ce89ab062b20c45f8bbac7252d4d3c282959fe5e4eabd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C1 18076 bytes
SHA-256: edffb8ce5fd78c395853983189cb25e14dc27354d0385e92e796409b7bbcc913
font_02_sfnt_off0001182b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1182B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1