Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60851bc776ffd070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-08-14 13:13:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: d4368e459e4dad671502bd64c0b28404 SHA-1: af0c8b487866f038d1ca37ea05dbcbf9b395182a SHA-256: 60851bc776ffd07085a5a6a44cd682ac44b29f9e32eb9245f9eea0a87540b168
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/solesad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd0467e55f---14995752322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/borekenubibefepabife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmakler.org/userfiles/file/gogewurolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e40239de887e681e3e4eab259b31d4e9/94344334067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38644c75949855cf6b70903682d1d9e6/42586880398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokofontaenen.de/idata/popazanavasavomowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/17250118590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5110e8031---gifubezefigipanadude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbaqkbvk75260i2lr4d4h2hc11/95123907533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a6ea3dc5ea903c3314298edc4e11da2/fididojulavosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/tatitogavudefutisapulomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d62c66bfbca1c0ff37c90f69a0db04d/46752278343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986ab734fa7---luzajalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f24c4b0e1264c2e7b01521e0b1f0a5d9/94213857553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1b0dc1d1c---setilorezomowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f36d9ab6c---dolemisawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f910fdb17d9f1ae16c1ff4c9669740f/44869517111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/84240542488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a61b6d0294b5ef7021471a8974c0cdae/65095623830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd6380776f610e891f55668c2eeabc4/nofadegedusobozubukugiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/48500446506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+literature+review+apa+psychologyPDF 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_off00010619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10619 17192 bytes
SHA-256: f96c7e71c6399eddfdec1b29392d2ab111638a52991027f36a5c96a9e79dee87
font_01_sfnt_off0001327f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1327F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A96 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 6c10820fa206680a374b2d4acc8b5c71aeb303d9165eb34b185eea987177456f