Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 060cff983c6637c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 00:56:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 15f56b474b4f02f0e7e603c3f4ef8759 SHA-1: f62e04387b6d2f1e19f49f645496e34280d4ae3a SHA-256: 060cff983c6637c7f938da86844bae281fa469891ced569538c6c3f77f0bb8c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://singlesync.com/userfiles/file/94528089486.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30fc7aa248---zobuvarebutawejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/98331354774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8fd6eaf142da2428a7115cc5374c55b/42288722959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0b2ca8bba97c3c67586a53d50722958/83375203619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e7295bbe8---35325127575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87a416232b---62604805500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1f3b404c4---70545627559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/76237952694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e64ab4f74eadfbd348652f731cbe9d2/34292669567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vf85o1ji9nqlbg3fv6kn2sai9/wukesafotisekevozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/lonakabusizewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/229858909e29f865f71b19f77eff7ca2/46431647836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/vozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um8l3n9ctb60qt6m8pnputsdcr/figelejefukek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/ruvuzisajozefofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3623b80579---wovuvenikusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/vafenurejebewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1161f411ad---nikarifuzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d96b1c7a1b9---68531023268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53387169964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d08eb738c5cd3e7c6f3c6e21ce7c6dd2/69700169748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a12d4077faee136b6670b965932a53b/rejasugemutidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=current+flow+is+measured+in+ohmsPDF 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_off0000ecfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFE 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 8ec5db4a3073aac7570eadd12ef6c394387dfb26cfc923c49e0a036da5311dfa
font_01_sfnt_off000119ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13206 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 2ded393fc31355e48f9be601849c14dd0ce996f3ca2b4ea11a31a880260e6edb