Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61f4b7f23fd717ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:44:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e87cbb2b2f64c3492a40bec00e816016 SHA-1: e90fb27df06a670feceefb7ae429ac0ed29a07b7 SHA-256: 61f4b7f23fd717eae109c4817f21f854cd653d3ab681d93ddbf006089e63fbbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or link-farming attack pattern. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/50778645614.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49616747164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/55368422290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/17809630081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qoeqdk6654hqp59ba0tqvqais1/76061544311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bor-diing.com/upload/files/nevisazolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c576a819d---85515450143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togclick.com/media/userFckfiles/file/22336030971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumariminanogawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/mixirubexegojezowubolete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f2bf892c0---32648030892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-s-g.ru/userfiles/files/47731005773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c607fa441abfe7e2111580bac9c622/89292929241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabjkhbzbqti4a3apfmdd2s4b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezabavugukuzefefolabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/zawojovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93278776975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/xebixemonumivesakonena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20a3f961b5e6e1a24bdceba00754b71/42563815149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/53947211753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/guzezumasowiperagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45c2d622b1b52126f9ca2f8a607aee91/71439480472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/pixiteruwafotagusirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/nuxuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608831f9613f7---13702094908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=microbial+pesticides+pdfPDF 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_off0000cf38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e74f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74F 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd5e6586d558ddc11fa90e584d35306709e14edd0600502b01483523560c4dd
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF8E 16664 bytes
SHA-256: acd172c346f372bb830402dff0fb04e98c2920c7d2e317f79e1c9d4b8bd3e75b