Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b461ef1e59e760fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 03e0b1d3bfb2ddafbe9b33514b000b2a SHA-1: d85d2848e98f54cc2d78086612bcf1d64c11541b SHA-256: b461ef1e59e760fa7d263f6369d7c82da5862135cef73e028f2f45d5397ff79c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=game+of+thrones+s1+480p PDF link annotation
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/podudurenedapisojapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab049a48ae8---ritibipabulevewuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/refikokedevalobuzili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c94771d345---busiziwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/fanibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/pobevulajota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adec6cc5fe8---juboniwuwogemasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6562805327f4184875c6b92743fa8ff/32289279810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce051c931b---tivefopefiviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810181972ae---88080718722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c06727ae1---bifubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macap.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/25422116207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essiac.cz/UserFiles/file/sibepazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/18277214689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef42eaf5d4---koputipisomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/vipaloluxavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimdaiphatsteel.com/Images_upload/files/tiluwitakemaxatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609659f22bcb3---97156891771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/98655235203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0174b35b39---57132007796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phaptangpgvn.net/app/webroot/upload/files/99031997305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rereji.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_off0000eb3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB3E 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 5ec909d3871acd7458dbf5e5c5bfddb4cd48df53e55275fd9ce46717da192bd5
font_01_sfnt_off000104ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBE 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 03d9e4ba322651074c4a208b77f8037800fe4f13d1fd4eec08e48a806eb670ad

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