Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60520da77ca47dd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:19:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ed3fc09c5dd6a2f0b6d8ac0af647ab09 SHA-1: 879880692534a0f9953e673fd2bd85a062426c8f SHA-256: 60520da77ca47dd0bdd56d5b04ea31406c2d4ad1b2d0fd1a63be9b78bffa21a4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xn--arbeitskndigungsrecht-best-5zc.de/userfiles/file/90170244171.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27e24be6c0992d5a769facc6c4a813a/matevonukimirefasivazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/xomerizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfhbbgnhjqkq13nkg2qg4pepm0/xojava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/64611974376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec0e4c30dd---31917678307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210524044636_yrrw7m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7av2oqfbjqfrqbmtjagalln9e9/badunalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d722bc6f169---36186037196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/dedopivarefinegazazomurev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/76653372282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecaa6686ea82a808c2f8b7829b45c7d6/tepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/38403775687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/dizedaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/29809440279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/neferuwasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/82142540145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/84198403235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/51407221205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/19460791264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/jonafimuzuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609239bcc0438---badadejewatepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/sefezujaboro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///dotetufufuwoxasogikesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608035867c65a---depokagebarolupidowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=energy+flow+in+an+ecosystem+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000ebcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCC 16752 bytes
SHA-256: e41e75b7a715ad24e6997a441e64e987e3d56358a322777107c9a9de4b92e635
font_01_sfnt_off0001168b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168B 11060 bytes
SHA-256: fc2b9da9f9d1304138be0c9124de266ebae463d11733daaf1b83f3ec8b9fe8dd
font_02_sfnt_off0001302d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1302D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1