Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ff6a60060ab28f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:35:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e80a5547f248cebac964e05f3395ea92 SHA-1: a50aca6080ccea7dcec3d7fe987f69a57229a1b9 SHA-256: 4ff6a60060ab28f1eb7e99e1bb0ff494d7d98216e770eff1ed6c52ab1ebbbc35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure victims to phishing sites or download further malware, aligning with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/nagusa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/84280720367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/79266123292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/66046450812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a99bc99d82e74ff60f7ca2e3118b81/36451397339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910921aa2d0---xidezalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36eae0b4d23b787ac08f919a12826831/mevitinutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.puskinas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24280105719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/katizirofodudumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3436a14eceb1b5e462c2dd6c98e29e6/dufufusenijenepogono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1623277973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/4705031813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///fuzereradivabanumoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/jorozupisoxefikerisudebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/zifanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f81e43679961acc69e8e4866bf35951c/mijiwupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibson100.com/clients/870224/File/fapulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde90e759d5---51282603081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dafodiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30b76720b1cf1a35c06a33dc1793e463/13304286818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/23789372974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/soxutojagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulanjina.net/upload/files/45297482947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/sadite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac268d16028---nulebobikizeposuzalemebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=performance+indicators+deped+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_off0000df93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF93 18084 bytes
SHA-256: cecf9fa7eb549510ff3ede168c9ae28ef1c45650adb697745b646514a2e9af29
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CC 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 10a65053d5a9d29a79470a9df75e6d17994a666965f5b4a9bf3435d6b6dd9669