Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61f401a611fc5463…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 84b2c7e4f17e5745a1be6e82af015642 SHA-1: 2a2fa02077069e88d6ca558dc831b548b05dabf3 SHA-256: 61f401a611fc5463f990fcbc282593cfd500ccb0393b94d357852bdb6a661f17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, forming a link farm. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's designed to obscure its malicious intent rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://alpinashop.rudy-ra.com/files/5227596773.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/konulubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/xizosokitimemitunanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fcd00a8764---rolased.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/xekodaxunufokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portecitadelle.portecitadelle.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23711819456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alteredcompta.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligivolofusudadiligulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-mill.jp/images/file/fisokowesixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210908_133035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7325bf0c16858b334bd45f7ba576358/sewanonopuzivisoraxomaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/napurufufazifibazijerelaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///netowaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202109120442569778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/526706708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isdoor.ru/uploads/files/batabobedesiviponima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aguito.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dc3d8d7cc369fa223f4d717cadfe2c7/84771292820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74180857273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b978acfc972a6b48246931674c48bb/24917818827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/21929295242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/nizoxorubudanejolimugato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct5g39pjpo.tw/upload/leakstop/files/lativigoxiwogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/weburipurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wigs4less.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/taluxizibekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=game+mi%E1%BB%85n+ph%C3%AD+hay+nh%E1%BA%A5t+cho+androidPDF 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_off00011b59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B59 30004 bytes
SHA-256: 7eb17dd64a0d5644dd566e425f93c973e6d299b43ae9c03afe625b39188d10ad
font_01_sfnt_off00015545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15545 11260 bytes
SHA-256: a15f377465aaae16bf98875e784552ecf1d7ea110f21af49f7e537da3beaf8d6
font_02_sfnt_off00016ed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16ED7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1