Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c61987d76aa338b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-08-03 01:08:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5f66aff30aafdfff85188318f9a10ffb SHA-1: a9ebd14fa7f285dd9a0bdc24058675ba5285e12c SHA-256: c61987d76aa338b7e421491a5f3487fdd64466147839af30639dcee5471178b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics suggest it's part of a phishing campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a5cf39ee5---mozozexetilupekize.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87245bd20ef99189583ecccd78b88603/46701602247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/bunawabolanina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/94006294770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/95018367285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094582cbb248---dumex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e413dd5c2---jorat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/xezolijogaropisitigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/181555408059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/sorokevelimojexosogezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39d88d805cc3111eb0584e181dfa34e7/33904601875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/zidavusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0q4ruse9j5ppth2a5b5kqsjmj3/jaxemonujumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suseefinance.com/userfiles/file/vidovabuwekasogidukavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mapanorosipesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/92347189888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/67470067334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/xabobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9b36568ca5---37526230995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100d51600cd8---sadirolulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/104f15dbb81b09292b6f70e787822902/rukuluwovagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selltoob.in/ci/userfiles/files/49345504238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3bj6i7idb131okt2bgji34qk6/revimiwixowudaroni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef35071d3c---55054275461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad96ae11117---97555221795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/dikogudixexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=judul+skripsi+pendidikan+agama+islam+kuantitatifPDF 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_off0001171b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171B 17600 bytes
SHA-256: d942ffa253a5342e06a2b8aee5fa5ada988eb589d811ab6c7773f96e25e7e665
font_01_sfnt_off000144d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144D8 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 5e3026f563cb01f0c786a77fb89db911e5e1db6b77c1645c0d31de24da2ed6ab
font_02_sfnt_off00015dd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1