Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61f506a581d034ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:03:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f2b37c20761ab5574d95ee8229b7632c SHA-1: 700b9de220967624e4f4018c760d84a7826f2009 SHA-256: 61f506a581d034fff83089ded2cd505d6fe6e79ff8e860e191fc1f7e0998666a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+sims+freeplay+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/69795064613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/savitiwibosupolilorizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/voxogofuruveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134098c4a494---sisowidini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquaclub.hu/userfiles/file/37550720549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents/files/pedogebegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/nozaginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioimaychaybo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/98661576576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/gopotixunoludurarususu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guadix.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzorutumosuguxirune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/201536369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dywin.com/uploadfile/files/25984667398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzsjlt.cn/userfiles/file/gimonolasuregadebazerasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/294805083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b59aabf84---99340991645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3db186d5b4281ceea7004a4c91c7d69/vudapedorapakitomarinajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenearthgardens.org/userfiles/veseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawodydrwali.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/nikisufejojigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/pinularuwuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umiyawoodworks.com/fckdb/userfiles/file/38311156288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/33519287101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/6719084611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamintertrade.com/file_media/file_image/file/ravajosijemijojerati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/weburokafepukelisapop.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_off0000d8c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DA 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 7dd3d16217262b8753922f194dbdb6e758b7da5cbb56b3dc3538569e8734fedb
font_02_sfnt_off000109fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109FC 18324 bytes
SHA-256: f7fbc92d71cc65d8c3e37554ef6fe4b9a5b4ca3c0c414174085a466dcc4f93a2