Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60103df23025f925…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 11:24:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b712990d578808f60b6187876f45dc2a SHA-1: c1b33889488831e0be26e7cd67cd1f64e86fd0e4 SHA-256: 60103df23025f92534e7f20a5fe0c72a508d9f4f1411cc6835e335b7ee6573c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support the link farm and SEO manipulation aspect of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321318cea52---28791615064.pdf
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/tepufude.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-pushkino.ru/upload_picture/file/73911937692.pdf
    • https://rrr71.ru/upload_picture/filiwexivopegojoni.pdf
    • https://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tudov.pdf
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/gezanagukapupedono.pdf
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/lipavawo.pdf
    • http://safetruck.gr/images/file/82583448385.pdf
    • https://samudra99.com/contents/files/pubumenanefivof.pdf
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/bipudenovan.pdf
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/xafomukebemikepa.pdf
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/lijepivudewuxubewozelejiz.pdf
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/rededu.pdf
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37983557509.pdf
    • https://e-room.co/userfiles/file/milik.pdf
    • http://ig-einheitsloks.de/medien/file/44696803447.pdf
    • http://maradonasalud.com.ar/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixevanitiwod.pdf
    • http://www.hgekc.com/media/userfiles/file/bosogoniv.pdf
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/nivamul.pdf
    • https://fratellifurloni.it/file/48899064138.pdf
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/52108841016.pdf
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ou97ufotj9ctd7oerehgabkfr/mapowemivovekaf.pdf
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138812e60ac1---monejugenogefujote.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=india+country+language
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f32d.bin
ff6ae542952d6b895603805ae112bc782d34a11b738a4c0488f133cd5b01c645
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32D 18848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000123af.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013bc6.bin
984507b16f6ea15fd33638dff6871d04fef415049c13b48544a40657bb0716b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC6 10544 bytes