Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60532cf72d17ad05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:06:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8a04b626083e0c724e570bdae3186ce4 SHA-1: 3d5c0c6d304c030f18cc9619e1a7e571b724491a SHA-256: 60532cf72d17ad05f5c7156f51b6ce12bd4f1d0a3b75d85f6b86e2b048046104
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95. Static analysis reveals that the PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.4191

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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.natursany.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/3714125807.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/48492477924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57670eee24---72683078451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camera68gialai.com/uplaod/quangtri/files/27629748823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ea1314f2d---satuxagogavirolifozolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagemavufivezuvomowetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edanieltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_B3CC22260D2FDA46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r13hq05mnsj89qunv8v6h0hl3m/tanexatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/39397544936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb7dbd39ae---73268775432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onestep-tokyo.com/userfiles/file/kemoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/42316242165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a936111c32---titososefaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/bulafezijolejeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ef45402f830500471407242d25a7b5/30756771877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/nanogal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/52102025259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d79ffon858hbshh4tgo9ofdv3/81140518546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.net/data/cms/file/vaxoxazajozuris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/78207483032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-onesrl.com/userfiles/files/gukewapivojotogasobuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/vibixanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowowdeli.com/uploads/files/polasanimisukovapimezaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32a01650fda6a6d36d472c8e4e805b95/46778153264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210602155412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608199c78a3f5---12565655175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/73148585105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=responsibility+performance+review+phrasesPDF link annotation
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB0E 17268 bytes
SHA-256: d258224b885bbf8d420e485504aa2427f200f6b445a2249433a46acde7356291
font_01_sfnt_off00010799.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10799 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1