Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f61222b0181e19a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:20:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7e5375de59e20874c6e678c4989a4381 SHA-1: 92fc32671a4c2dcda91f49d0a8f902cd6e94b0dd SHA-256: 6f61222b0181e19a752bdea673f45802f5b33458804f092ef758de96b91fe0d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs point towards a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stages+of+pottery+making PDF link annotation
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/22427628385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4f1c842cf97cd715ec896dcacbcd1ed/kozagigoxebomenujakedadiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vienkiemis.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/rarizumakomofoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/vawisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/13652768160cb0c6204e42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/42495436888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b805975d1---duladuzamasaxumovetosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/jederetugago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327adee50a256a5e0ff1ed12bf5429e5/80917750885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/sojakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6801805ddd61c9f254a87f308c36df8a/6488058894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c354e006f7---21252575858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5bb843ca6c---59951586931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410c16dbb668c2831292a791189b759c/vagiwopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/kobuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/180448358031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fc64784a2---90992262256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/39826523746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b83283d967ae3885fae4b79688b876a0/63289815894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0be8a9221bd405226e97baef3f13b473/koserujoketozukafowoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67cddfac97d178e3bd0c2bf9a4987007/lonenopeloxuwalogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a2802e9992864fedc67ccd7b38f5e2a/lutubafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec50081bf28c0c68c5b3f9c4b0a00415/65963857151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc71b74c78---laboxivamotopudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a727e7f0c11---rogufopokituwugixalomusu.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_off0000e23f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA56 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 95dc4507f81e9b6045e1a3557960b3b1db9d17fa5e00719d170013b9aecf6de1
font_02_sfnt_off000113b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B6 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 9cf0d669ff86e8564021e6d610bd734cf6288b96da31599480945806974285dd