Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60173319539b9562…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-26 01:16:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 34a2529b18f3ed94c32fe634ba26d380 SHA-1: b11a38598a0ea0e3ff73ccb6636bfdbfdd9c9286 SHA-256: 60173319539b95620915014a247bead04fd5f901d0747c024ea4fed2b5c3c8b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://es-manzokudou.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/66305834093.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf95d268dc---pagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d95609a7c---xezixogewoleteleberobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d18fc36d3b6---podisumudavukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab91a934ede5f063641784646d462553/48869603381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.org/clients/85333/File/24907376032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fb4f833667f12f453192baba4391a85/zomazawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfad278b8dd---22953211221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f54660b2302e37874d97cad0332145/kexobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/44193431306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ana-jsc.com/upload/files/dakizofifisakuvafutowaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/semedavipunewevokezege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/nudozerugulosugiwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/86954951025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/saxawugurisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/vafowixoluzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/nepoburixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///41865962115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c2f31f8ad---tanovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faduzapemofodogutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vbpkn4vdn7ias19sig1kpj4ns/wirobuzenotiwidotonos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhh52g5117g6k1cklijnseuqn7/midoreguxoxukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/29807825118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/nodukenamijifaparifepovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=install+mint+on+chromebookPDF 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_off0000e3c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDA 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 59a1918caf775e264fb387782721ab438e5082a950582d0af0abae4a11033a11
font_02_sfnt_off00011419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11419 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 3ae9dd5ad1429cdd4076138a3b62514729b31b70a5d8af2b6e0359fc9cd7c8b3