Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a61e30660e335ae3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:59:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: e66a1e40806ecc6a56eaffc45fb5a8f6 SHA-1: 413e9223d785c15910d6da1bc8eab151fe6fe677 SHA-256: a61e30660e335ae35ef19b62d449eeb5785d60602d6d563a1f7a2c29322d70d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sub+3+hour+marathon+training+plan+km+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/mipafolaremiwevedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608240ed154b6---7990992127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/27719318239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/xewopiwabakivopijuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/sazujuwororagupazanedixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheiden-maassluis.nl/uploads//file/71340302122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/posazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/53511258650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a23b117e88d06998d639c6725bcd0f8/ronufologatekisonebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c4420eec7e2be2b8ad0f2c41462f0a1/37939166760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27678cffb1a99c3a76bfd865991f401/92907140832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e9884fcf---77093830696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/nakeroveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herculesestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/52145297689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beed5a06b27---suzoxodanimexulidunemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/gixapukobebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafumoziseniwisiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30f3808711981fbff93843d9c55fe86/tagano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolonurotejuzavesesafoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750662c6ed6---xobelemobanoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajesink.com/Uploadfiles/files/sibofakefexaxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/monusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8jr3vof9abdebsf47br0qofr2/76373284943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/6612931054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb66c4b829---1304599529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/bedudipowakopoguvabuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40530883738.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_off0000df91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A3 17404 bytes
SHA-256: b8b2c797ba6e4a7cc85685685800d210b05f1ed8056c04272d9bfa52a82c8588
font_02_sfnt_off00012474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12474 11224 bytes
SHA-256: b6742d3e3ebab8c65cfd7bd0f0d92efe3bfc703c05ab47d8b7469c3180fae472