Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e61c25e0137dfaea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:46:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 21b8f709eda6cfbd67a16d0d0ad464d1 SHA-1: 283822c3114ab87dc7f317174a5c48e52721349b SHA-256: e61c25e0137dfaea658adcbe5fe42df013865b7f97e64c8d81809ecbc9f500eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to external websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/koloropax.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/902fb7281b8fa05a0274a6b93833e916/21292524282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/rikapakopububisobufupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/18191059846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49687217243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/44780403221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb9dad950f17cbc2abfd98eeb9aa2343/44607734417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851236e3ab3---81780170404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/87224236098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlm3ivjoaqtrlclri8khtu6sm3/59467726770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/40886415258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c20fde965e363e6f84b2217b78c03d5d/wokujefotesirugolajoleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e747c47c2---87228044272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851963e92901f2f6ca892ee7588f2522/xazufugobemuvuxivofan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25eof505t6q358cknr7tqt7j7u/wutivarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.org/scauserfiles/files/nejabuvefosotokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtie5sed2oo7rbh4s3i39a47u0/68335061491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aqr5mg91d4ni1ualkpf8litq6/vovuzutukefepajexinoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098432384170---naloliwigerexupijitovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twozonechickenlasvegas.com/uploads/files/15660540568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c58215045514050436d8b9f863b1411c/gidodagupoginepetimaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a68dc3659---65945835783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfkr2vhna3066ecov61sm1jb75/biderekuregozidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/84920463495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=robertson+to+cape+townPDF 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_off0000d14b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD14B 18616 bytes
SHA-256: f5a67bab37b099284f9290568ca9b4f7e8c32c0a4c6890d6a92853488ea6939d
font_01_sfnt_off00010206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10206 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1D 10500 bytes
SHA-256: c897619d389c23975ef2db6a72da2f68db7c65f3376276f644aa740cb091bce6