Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60064016f16b1fef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 04:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1cbe5e06633eb12a467219172a6fe3df SHA-1: 48844c1ea03e0ac8f7112c85f04a8dc8dd95610e SHA-256: 60064016f16b1fefec8308925a24d6875d5705c733f4c5078e3574bcdd3bac52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or SEO poisoning. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/210916135210555009dw6sv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614237b4b415d---8531038169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ximozulukobopegezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/21637565396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzwep.com/img/file/202191462610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resicolor.com/upload/files/71488263913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1630530825_2ad848a803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://byocamacho.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevawolatodukuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/kesiseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tgkngtgvvq1msnt1lr421r4a5/89198343200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefocusdesign.com/upload/files/40421465878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5af5a0434bf7314d14ce5573577ff440/diwuxipakiromalore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s4l.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/gegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/voravodotewulexaguzimusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/gujibonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ristovski.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/64775829217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sivaxajekozojoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internet-trade.cz/UserFiles/file/15138700903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/6087902361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/finokotixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddabc39a33438c5193b7d811d6b988d3/59594295919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=smart+lock+screen+wallpaperPDF 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_off0000d3a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A8 17376 bytes
SHA-256: ecb67869421b1fcb8d0f7695708eeda9da3ec0d6dd76db3039eb3f8f71aafa1f
font_01_sfnt_off000100c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DD 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 0bd8e69d674a614ce3a890172013b15832ec9d826db6e2774b6225504ccd1d60