Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60123ee1ff3f4a9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 17:06:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f8193a7aadc12a3bb9082a2a99f53964 SHA-1: 68484066ce8d795bded7e65b15e54bbad79ceac5 SHA-256: 60123ee1ff3f4a9af65380c0a62072db75d5178a449ee116ed7ac8778c7134ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9727

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://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avveee8g5l05bbv1hmugmkcmg1/ferubilubisapef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/94352765932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78925801089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1978hounds.com/clients/0/09/09313dc2b2b2138818c22350edca9cf7/File/34383499139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ee71df466d17b4769e5d8cbdc40d0f/tuwivobowowesagusej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/89193950084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/51838064874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blatt-gruen.ch/files/rideme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58nje5gl5jno8sd939chdd1p3p/87697772897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elektrona.cz/files/file/82765202110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43464566016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0b76055e1---fogumabunene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxjsyd.com/userfiles/files/jutesuloforuniwariwulado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07cqea633v83n66r6j8lqckpbq/48491775320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/60453373272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cde54c110---49900687661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nors8i4ur9p6q85aar7fpmffhq/52097705969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/borajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/88375558511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/78371658818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aitalk.vn/upload/files/16379399812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54fd64efc6---xurunagegazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/tifebozamoduxavulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947d3eb4778---zatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d5de6714---64035677990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+be+a+detective+book+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00019cc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19CC0 23512 bytes
SHA-256: 0361c527ada8423d997ab4065cbc43caa61d3ff57491d8b1eb1e657debd53cb7
font_01_sfnt_off0001d604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D604 4888 bytes
SHA-256: ebb1d48989bb449129bb4b335677a0c7e9085b89100f5ba56bcad34345845fd3
font_02_sfnt_off0001e814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E814 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0002002b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2002B 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 445a533ef63d18aa835c9290df18e8163f46220e70e2329913c15f01e7a81fee