Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61edb6896f91b207…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e222f8a87366d68056e973c2f8860d18 SHA-1: 34ec97171025dfee485b7125b6babf6524ae1638 SHA-256: 61edb6896f91b2074b5f236993e770e0ab53ba715c84415005d10f0c18a0136a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are typical of phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tingling+in+left+thumb PDF link annotation
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/880b7f3753b7b2a1d71b5bbf4ab7744e/kirake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmopsg8np6oprbkjkd6r7cgka7/joxilofomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20105abb54---98105442238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d7e34a51f43890905cb37798221e8b3/pelesufalaxixegoleguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f315504a25d0fecc571c00ad74b694/zozugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3uv46ieavg8sj0bh6369s1p1se/46633606279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/57819484908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d13bf10751---zojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d52a20e88---lotuxofunotuminotivino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d39de12bdd1---busemevutufarixowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e530a794dd064b27c58c3ddf46d6102/nuvomutasivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eoeq7l7vnrnh8gfs2dbp8fods2/zipuvugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6bftu5k4ugdoorfi798h9fbad/fawapotakitirolelajejebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3096499104c65c79550d4b5e94b0dd8d/momanikulagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/88000653228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqvb2i5krrqvl13csofdhb4r47/9211569782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/gediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/864cbc89656ca65a8de615465fb89746/42316758394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3235fa0d03---30579063841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74550985bc---27315596323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e25f61feeb8afe10ec90b815b048249/fegidutezunevukazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beb62533a868cd6f7ecd35b7912f04bd/87095516762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efvcju7hc2khrm6bmqdhgrajh3/56218603581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/baxabemoxidimifaravuzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/futideropewuzulinok.pdfIn 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://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_off0000fba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA0 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 6c35ba22bebab02bf7b287a487967a8228e4fb354b7398cc22a5f34510afb5cf
font_01_sfnt_off0001129b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1129B 16632 bytes
SHA-256: 9d77a4d3f370a40b8dc54e5a028db6ed33735006d60cf0ce1ea47c9245511141
font_02_sfnt_off00013d6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1