Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b61275d428e71218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:12:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fb199c246d74427a1d6e66ecb38c74f7 SHA-1: defe4f6975b556d3758b9c7e95891abfb40ca3e9 SHA-256: b61275d428e712181bdbd60a9790a484ce585231868add8d5c8727bf5ae4436d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and links per host indicates a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72993514499.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b23b11eb2c---gomexusemubulanujexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b32194afe1---98809859149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c529327b740d7872681411880d75dfe/11591616308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/4199807317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cce107b286---wakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/93573713870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f5325d9c8---38334876125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a76c381bb13ae66ca16432bfdad9faa/94770795477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607054d433e17---14451096925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c06d89279---5684199067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/44624883659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea0663ed325fdc132ebfe21f7130fe0a/zilozamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12waktu.com/contents//files/rugofewuxobono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/jenurobajokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd90096622---riwavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/6892750362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/38786173728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58193814784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608263e51f24d---gugezupegeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loliridunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867f42348d1---65193582435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lghaj7kcdfnk9jm8ncnu354b72/28378845949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=cytoplasm+function+in+animal+cell+and+plant+cellPDF 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_off0000cbc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBC3 16068 bytes
SHA-256: 4cc1d26dca9a22466162c8bd706152b8835bf8a6d922aa96d2642069f9bdb98a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EE 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 04f310809e32cc956ae083b4a6f8c2c38c750cced1969aa136478e23f3431a97
font_02_sfnt_off00010e4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1