Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 961d49275c7f7e4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b289030e7407ae798b439ad583ef7f26 SHA-1: d6f86eff6b68b845ff21e6766e5fe177c86b31e3 SHA-256: 961d49275c7f7e4d82a02fc7f30fe590525084c993ac30ba1d2696c275908c19
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm and hosts external URIs, with a high ML score and ClamAV detection confirming maliciousness. The presence of a 'password-protected archive lure' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into downloading and decrypting a payload. The embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as download locations for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=game+naruto+shippuden+mod PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346ce0ed72e---70671678003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/ralir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/63681885525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35779304a762a7fbfa57b24ee3d55cb/32013353222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f109b707d7fab67bdba4fc96b0039342/vanivobowotapukewopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceit.ke/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/garaxewowajejekegatixilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/86960813277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/sefeduriwiluruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accounting789.com/ThImg/file/11745389058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovoveri.org/userfiles/pozezaxajabopowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fk-fudosan.1nino3.com/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/81809294201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvrhousing.com/uploads/penur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24431704639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a65ccf3b2c---mufetazawikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pacemakerpressintl.com/uploads/assets/file/kuzuretelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161340e25dfbf8---97120969089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skl.deindrukdemo.nl/upload/files/zafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/107b68709b178e9992fc263eb6ecc0eb/rovosegikafozuvofejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efaf4d8e61cad59bba1638fe77fad10c/resijufenokubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93515303206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/22771688871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleedupark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11042585588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motovelo-nmsk.ru/userfiles/file/88716836263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/namewulufubusajefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79224902271.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_off0000ef2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2F 17884 bytes
SHA-256: b54a6d620438c7ebfe63cb266207e9e3151385bde8f1b289adccffe4ce956f19
font_01_sfnt_off00011dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD2 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 0970f5006c3811e252a403623921081db6f9b70e915794a758f218039b067a31
font_02_sfnt_off00013655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13655 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1