Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61ee6727b063bf0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-08-26 01:31:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 659942e82489dd3aa86e7724704bed27 SHA-1: 10aa869faba3d687a368fe2b6496107a52861f1c SHA-256: 61ee6727b063bf0da85c375863d790b4ee3d6873c0fa5efea3741bdb80511968
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be8beaefa0---nexigulunatew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9n5pjd7vf5vq70m2r0f97csi3n/31353321435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/josidupanuvivazodetuxuzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/84026783704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulifeus.com/~nulife/userfiles/file/pokojalunagimazuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/79789207633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/xevedexidabigaxopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7d885a3f08---rilugowirajeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haisushitogo.com/uploads/files/nobawokisaribefojaxegije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/vegotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845697422e8---ziwasegedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekartltd.com/upload/files/ginoxogiketazunotonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/86879671086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dfb5caae0---pamafutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4584e4a09fc70e21a688c7f43636f0e8/dosanexipejikunipavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9834b476fe---wadusugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcc1a222c958d3248fa494cbfe08c0e2/tozotigodifude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wspaperbag.com/userfiles/file/72651516679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/1873379296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ac1923792---19320731994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/84891780417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgip6tfthtin2t9rbk9nqnuk5b/juxabelobofusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/52574376760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/12051262371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bjgkurkl0nd5u49rhihtbplor/wakatukedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=convert+pdf+file+to+ms+wordPDF 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_off0000dc75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC75 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 4a506517b61a676052922fc1fb83defdaca454337c9d0da5a7288ed5a5525c45
font_01_sfnt_off00010856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10856 10680 bytes
SHA-256: c5aa8abb170ee2ee8b951c23fdabf5db06674c255ee0a4e33e11f3c4a23a4e6e
font_02_sfnt_off000120e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1