Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e61137fc5b112b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-07-30 07:33:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: cc54a0ea88dfe30b55a63de05d2d2fd3 SHA-1: 90173c10b8cef661a2cd62a1a0e9b155a1534b01 SHA-256: 8e61137fc5b112b2779d3d1ac3cabfb68d764b8ec56d87171637acb3e1d768d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are typical of malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35cfa565a1---xezubidepuxuwapafop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://transit-connection.com/userfiles/files/51923994923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/85142529751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887102a63a9---wekapevesupufunidupawixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/dutatuxorego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/74666928813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/rufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/sulogilaguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idmef1jgsdbtq6lgo4b2rqpnc1/sofanifevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/590sg1927pb2v9c12iet6ng7hi/65274709039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad8ac7da34---91682002322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/74111835800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99882156127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/jidejerevegutuloniru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81111f2148f815faffefcf09e769f9d5/90364745633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f23bab999---wakufupenojilalubazosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdh1gc79j6le46s1th6dl19qb1/wuragaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29981f0d2f---87324891061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bggjseqk0ugjnlsjrjfbrp62d/87927743656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b158fa86c0bf967e4f8deeee197ad4/nopemukobokusekarisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8edbc72384f0fd51346e9901ee0eaf35/fazosafoxadaxeruzasaxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7b7d1635f---95942278461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=como+comprar+roblox+cardPDF 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_off0000c3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3D9 16440 bytes
SHA-256: b4ddca95cbc3a87ea1ac7567c61cbdab509f3a9887c55c0ce64dfacf3fd819aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8E 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 0b81112444554cb34b8090da1fa329817ed24643c83e8b01849feca836911d49
font_02_sfnt_off000104b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1