Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60a71175c5757802…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 07:05:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1bb3489378e43d9efea6382e43763c6a SHA-1: 30e4fa41d6dabd13a64e1bf185f8f05201db55e2 SHA-256: 60a71175c575780248939914547fed19ba6031d8a07e07acc5c6cf9e1346a263
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple links, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter, suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cosigning+a+mortgage+for+your+child
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/boguwixutimavi.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5935f51d46---81935917021.pdf
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/55052767873.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd18282ecf1---77531205046.pdf
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adaf283cd4f---17965483935.pdf
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/99960935890.pdf
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/48569980222.pdf
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///25853340468.pdf
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210702113709.pdf
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/63074476501.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/16084983146.pdf
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/42382188863.pdf
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59dc81fc59abc3983f40f51730a8409c/dutulivakiwodezu.pdf
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/75590759691.pdf
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf31fbed97abb415c53bc07cf311c0a/gonukumowujilob.pdf
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/883953dc4880415e3dc001abf422a04a/filidixibodeguzalal.pdf
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/gumoraledonofogavu.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9dadc275f---17180101562.pdf
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/lameminiro.pdf
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/63475814643.pdf
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4c7ebfdc59f15a7631ed43360898b58/vupiginugofetuxudi.pdf
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/301412317487.pdf
    • http://starrsgazette.com/admin/images/file/wuzokufoxapefedexego.pdf
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/2612550736.pdf
    • 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_off0000ea85.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA85 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001029c.bin
f70aba0c058dfbc45a41fd185eb15614221f60ca349e5bdeec7a86dfcff8b63a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029C 11168 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c59.bin
b357b9fefeb74d6e209a4b2e2b7def5b0c55d126079b5e16b5ef604738d640a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C59 17516 bytes