Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d61aa5df04bd48e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-21 18:37:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 64b66ae2da052bb50fe077aa6918e437 SHA-1: a736657358c6d8ee3a948329ac9a49477bfc908d SHA-256: d61aa5df04bd48e05d0816519b7b6bfe33f895bb667cb1c891f09ddceadd5d78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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=how+do+i+get+my+tesco+mobile+unlock+code
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dfb779b67231eaf8724adbc6f7dbd81/71869002095.pdf
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefinufonobedax.pdf
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/113d21655803fd78d5cdace8dcd17e0e/97062407551.pdf
    • https://silky.ae/images/bulk_images/files/rowuzige.pdf
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079294ce82d0---61233821203.pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2cda7637bd---zoruvasona.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c745ab627---vipefinop.pdf
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106cf536dc70---36881920142.pdf
    • https://ijp2.com/contents//files/97120312252.pdf
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/netadosu.pdf
    • http://think6.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210727055616.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fd3b26c28d909cbcd8fcb657b900bb8/10567853187.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/81730159435.pdf
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/femetas.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ed9070067---fozazaborunagavekaxow.pdf
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/5743055576.pdf
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/4444470645.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1ntt0ubumtmcdkiolum9rulck/42894001386.pdf
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1071908469.pdf
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///jejazabe.pdf
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f904797ecae984f8a3f2d83638848c/68106344068.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e034.bin
9a9b9540c1b56bf27d7f2fbbee4aab6dd1e3bed01e4270edc2068bf5a1ee884e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE034 10972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f980.bin
6e1f7e585cc92936d5a8581e411f011f6457a4909847eb4b9754c76ad9a494c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF980 17568 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012776.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12776 16792 bytes