Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60a39aca1ab86b97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-23 16:07:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c99fa3b5348270a327ec17797145827d SHA-1: 2414ab8f965187e057ba376386b809c615ea492c SHA-256: 60a39aca1ab86b97a5f42aa3bd2801fc40d1159cebccd0714e1b6951e9bc5f6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, which in turn host other malicious PDFs. This indicates a link farm designed to redirect users to further malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://kechengchem.com/upload/files/jalovunotuluwipusemil.pdf
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfjcb7dsnr3bu0s6q7fj0r3ps7/kedawokazupof.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebabc4a37b---zowatozaxa.pdf
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/vujipilozobuzuf.pdf
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/91906389706.pdf
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16779951033.pdf
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f62fe54845---xexoke.pdf
    • http://xaydunghoangthanh.com/img_duhoc/files/nozusip.pdf
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/16094770575.pdf
    • http://pmke.cz/pictures/files/4188816129.pdf
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2c6e699b992a172be997f12bca1f6b/xepimiz.pdf
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987f1936d09---siwonovafirosolef.pdf
    • https://corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20476538956.pdf
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/zewesosofoparajaroxo.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bc21b0a3092e3774a6b7a04f26fd8bf/vojunizumoxafo.pdf
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/27271768493.pdf
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powafiwezogugevirapeki.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/688299f6a170cda97f877cc575fe4b7a/60905060293.pdf
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/rewopasizixedojujolirujag.pdf
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/40821352764.pdf
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f07f69a2f2adbbb63497d68d10589b0c/52639369275.pdf
    • http://sitepride.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/zoguzexixuja.pdf
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/savinox.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=type+of+pumpkin+for+soup
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0ed.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0ED 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f904.bin
6145fe8f854ab97e88f2e7d63ace4468adbbc510a802297be2e7b707092d0561
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF904 10480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000110d6.bin
e9ca91eedccf33a22188c8228a3d3e9434e7c859cff6d114c062b56ae0e5ab92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D6 17928 bytes