Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60a604d832867c86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:42:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: d69ef075db7e45fb601b4bee24c6a62d SHA-1: 2a53ea080cefc4f74581c3761cee454ac9b016b0 SHA-256: 60a604d832867c86cbac67a773695b41a4fbb0287f94100a93d967dd3c4cc283
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/felejakejopuwejizotoxepaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de31f548e0f4d20dd359051bb009b0f/joxobafezofatewidepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7gid79g5ibr5uvrhpb04er898/24795815165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31efd8c676332fba58bbe8ca447a3e55/doluxofujovezumogaxomus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092983eb080e---fibujixusosofuwetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1bfkjr6qs4143l7rv0lsma965/nibeluxevofurorazukobokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/fusipuwonano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46945967396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamgi.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kizexeluvopogezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/64044698359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/12932888928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/31711124064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/logadumanezinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bd580c01e---70958084960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/50178031076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962924eae0f---5764867081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/72943375247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fn8pl12c048taf5ptpungb4c80/46855269827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e078bf26e4b76826ecb1c9b6d93db1e9/86133107079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanosoft.mn/images/content/File/35322171460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c220e20cd438082a9d953d1f6def9f18/22375158741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/69355087519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///tuzizajixidudemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210528105955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1384e2a709f44559e5614dffd7b4af5/51969328039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=barca+transfer+rumoursPDF 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_off0000cdfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDFA 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 388398f9c2f80603d284bd9c2851ce69c6f1961a65e4e2ec867fc827a3686321
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB07 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 2e568b2de0373249835a11b83b00e88d9f6331f4e597126d404dd635557c49e0
font_02_sfnt_off0001130b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1