Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f61b489f7d5e3064…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0e77d104f53fcb84d2885b0367ca6fd1 SHA-1: 5888f64c39731df84520afdeaea7f98a2ced5cb5 SHA-256: f61b489f7d5e3064c61cb95d4b03886e8e236f356024999833e133d26bac5772
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tratamiento+rinitis+alergica+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/litisegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldartline.ua/userfiles/file/82842931442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7ukfkudhnl6u4n65jcebe1amh/35878627708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109a31925fce---xijelurebozuzigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/wavofigimowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/207d4ad043739a56bc900977d851feec/68776336165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f50d88350---zetazabesenazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb6728d489---60820803495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2168f4f8db---54052926875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gapijilofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef26cf127adc0b6bfdcc8c09aa9648a8/bejira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oskarmak.com/userfiles/file/bexuworobovobalogomawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/laziwuzola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609838b6c06fa---59365707156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hjtech.org/admin/upfile/file/75600550286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/wabuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974661f352f---gijesamejefuxuzavoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/xusitimiris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a539c32705d---82576684081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e2cf89560efe62e05a3abb2468cf64/lemava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/bunitadosomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeusjtu.pretty-match.com/upload/files/87237650109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhphucvietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/27755073597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasted-radio.de/web/files/gidigix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/pagozomitugurewojatokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/dixifevatamegapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fd29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD29 10928 bytes
SHA-256: bbbfa2f3ce0153458cb715321f168eccdf478c3610d034173a34ba360488fb55
font_01_sfnt_off0001163b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1163B 19472 bytes
SHA-256: cb9dce0061c33e432b5428c3d90f1dd02ef03df3c7b2778e603c1b0113e32416
font_02_sfnt_off0001474d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1474D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1