Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61ec2fa052d1ae08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 13:16:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8309859c1064c84bc26da85fec468bcb SHA-1: ae5b94bdb3de691f20da4872fd87166a2c262e7f SHA-256: 61ec2fa052d1ae0898becfcb54b2e54a90a400a3020bbe67ebc7a5a2adb06c19
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous URLs on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting points to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608053e3ca6ab---sosekupifonokile.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3dcee5633---palugowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/bepeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/berev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d12b685c9de395b774cb50d5e982b6f/dafisanedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/mujijiwoxikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xodokigimakuvupejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/64184548724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/71344783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/vofopolevizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/mofamomuneguvute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/84625354738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/sefugewodesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lusagroup.mobi/images/website/user/files/ligatupomekosifupuzowapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/62451385703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b420a753ddb---dosejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb16bd0511---99155895481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/76358703406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/nejufisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105100721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087015ae5955---74530708486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/43137857367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+have+i+learned+at+workPDF 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_off000145b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145B2 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 2ecc5ec80d0fc98584164073943a4a9d125c4a1d105dfdd3faa6d5527d9230d2
font_01_sfnt_off00015d3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D3C 16680 bytes
SHA-256: 0511a7f49c86332a018d9160a2a717c41eb14ac5e6b408c46b423a033665ca17
font_02_sfnt_off00018883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18883 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1