Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60157282d0e4bc50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:36:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9781f56ad713f4f3c4fcd54bd2be4fea SHA-1: 78df032bcd5e65f1de6626dc6c0749df1212b595 SHA-256: 60157282d0e4bc50a3a50c14e1558a73d6a3418098a016f851b06832916582f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a61b6c4e5a---48061114426.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/siwebipigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad74e7345e---datusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/kobolawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/54128741443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/karuvipipuzifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606faa6f43718---nemanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/3086663973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuminhtam.com/Images_upload/files/44923498216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099fb467f3d9---kikolagumibezomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/30039212619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad0efb06d2---13092914124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1335d607976df8d596589026d1b4963a/japud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c27a30c9c---zadatetogawomoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/fozagomukasejexejexuxonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1580448721---47376410174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clic-essc.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruxaloxesakewera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746c55bd327---42049741334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxm.pl/userfiles/file/68964535541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/80435361895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jordanfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/51/51534e3e38036466a76ca8a024fd4923/File/51498064551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81293336157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/58974453248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210808010055_1829695034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=gloomhaven+organizer+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_off0000f302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF302 17900 bytes
SHA-256: e6ed95916b3a1a33f5e3f44bd08b912225bdfa0514b85e2c5d61410922ee74e4
font_01_sfnt_off0001214a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214A 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 00e213d4106b15f9dd2b6f82f6e4fc4c48949f501d12c939ecbdf45dfbce400a
font_02_sfnt_off000139ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1