Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d61a0408f14b7b9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-29 19:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: c62e0ba0d8cd70a4a5c3c22b5b8e90bb SHA-1: acdf10a87df170b20ee68add9b0a92e3b175798d SHA-256: d61a0408f14b7b9a9880a4c72f16e06d07858523c70b2be770a9a36faa97609b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. The document body is unreadable, but the structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://absigorta.come/file/28682761047.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ee49aba5caebfee5eb5bb1185b6b49d/67757646168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hecj7nbcfi3cq86dl6ne4en7en/983915893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab7f7d0fa06e0a133098ac7722c5247e/14701263311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/xavivaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/95262776734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763d0c2e229---69779853563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90873197793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8132ccd09146690fc81a1df50cf9cabb/96641337424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ad2105e39---19751749878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d99cf928726afea0f458e5d04e86f2f/86595654059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3787f07e5---dadesobavikevalilafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7be88f03b1---76663081970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/68886997016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01234e04e9---84618535022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a245405a672---nudutuduxilimoxamipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a962010bhlceocui9ml7n7c2eb/dokuzusilonijonisulomewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4092649160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/zulotuwure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/fawetibiwekikirufexut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/85037273588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb357b2337---89911445694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/838863503d33c05d3429b94309779cb6/28782433911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kgjq3l3lauena5s9dqk5vfd30/42753572811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/sosik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+the+heart+symbol+mean+on+the+omron+blood+pressure+machinePDF 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_off0000f538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF538 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 832c2ad72692068f73730e7cf4f78818edba88010cd97e699a1affeca565d1a9
font_01_sfnt_off0001205f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1205F 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 938de527d5e861a44be0903a81a14b178de57c04d0ee8e76be3b9ff700c10a56
font_02_sfnt_off000139f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1