Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 060aa94a6ee919c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:57:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d6dbbfe2df91ffbe30a82f5a748d9c4b SHA-1: fd7fc3a506e00bffc4f047aa481caaabfce954d7 SHA-256: 060aa94a6ee919c9dccf9c880ef542c364312b271631a205841039f97408d25d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or download secondary payloads. Several heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f8ee49b79---dawinevopegugidiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/55892372541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/1689084577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mptradingcompany.com/userfiles/file/muxenatigeboxereluxufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/so7i0mdass61rt3upakmbjcmm0/pawemusajezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/7642705250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/490f76f08879d39a184ac31dcc56a21f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/54823558093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/62254210384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/xavuwejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-g.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3279292193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0e667b367---1663912979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/33963765008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/segexakoxonolukababo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/71008774688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13c76b7675c1ff66832c1f624a777899/nogosufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://affectif.ro/data/Image/file/lewegudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aeb824decfffd3e41476665a91c2a846/91366635400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fad508cda0---gaviwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d6141ca56---56450414382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/golitafisisediporamuvebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/988nqta4as3831sd8mt3ccu3av/pidigigilifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fcd2afbbf---sariroxurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/xerekukiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=maharishi+mahesh+yogi+on+the+bhagavad-gita+pdfPDF 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_off0000c020.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC020 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 54b9a70887aa32478e466895360e57be2e9fad1fcea0865a06f03883e6722c74
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f20c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF20C 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 9b1fabcbf28041e10f3f415cf03f05f483429eb270b4612dbdecadf6cfc88553