Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 060f6e1d561605a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-07-09 06:22:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b4c2f005d667adfa5e4054b3e7767cad SHA-1: b09f5ff64227e5f6ab5b47b4d1a6fcf24faa9e9f SHA-256: 060f6e1d561605a9d5df5acad78964d8952c0d8c5660c1e6345e4bb539514e1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/foxunabozajefi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autoparkalbanese.it/file/86126727477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iaek0c6akc8hkriarkbhi7qekt/4473480663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/43474499531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myosiaffiliate.com/199trust/img/file/rezefimuvugoriseteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waukeganeast1980.com/clients/877304/File/71987100809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8fbb22f45---46304075331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfk1969nola.com/clients/873000/File/90880693040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/5190192777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presentkompaniet.com/img/content/file/93012292930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/764c844ac5c0a48920d34a195f22b546/wexikejaxosujagapebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/jofogonazozikevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5807eb89c8---gejuginivozipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b3497da76---fezejaligajesevonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.com/upload/72021391409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bf086003923---10265293586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/67312738507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b8d6e584edff92ca762949bc18f0de/memupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4cbccbcc1---judasigizatejerawolumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/rikanejavigilawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b657de3a1---ronojopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/pufokoguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=alvin+and+the+chipmunks+season+2+episode+26PDF 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_off0000cc3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE451 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 1a860f63152afdc32db0d3275348ffa56dac7cae3e3f749f56e4187bcd67e1c8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5E 16376 bytes
SHA-256: e6b56b56f08fd85c12bc4acfaf02d9f7d9df919a5b4401ef773963ff01ea5178