Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60a78a8a547c2ba4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:25:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0c067f00783db615a1797507d7de324f SHA-1: ceea5e7189f7c3548c9bc4f2f0accec9dd4d5a23 SHA-256: 60a78a8a547c2ba4167cc7d4434fdad74b150f8578148e49a84f241560e6f491
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 WordPress upload directories or other potentially disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing sites or download further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a link farm used for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/27653700732.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161092ca227164---nujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfk-dekoration.dk/images/uploadedimages/file/filifigudigexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/davijejikekezuwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/favibosuwinafadodogugupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cet.sk/res/file/mepujelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/47744858445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebdaatcoop.com/userfiles/files/kuvomufafekapurigivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1409d75792---bijeritoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lixtech.com.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/53351236428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/12645433361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d602dff72---denikupigig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/sarulaxatudekabokidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/mekuvuxekaridobepodenutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/35136105697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/93256259360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50808bdf53---suxiruzezewano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d79a77e5d11---99582481603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/vodudokimujozevakemanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ustunbilgisayar.com/userfiles/files/20667981955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613327296a423---nasozazarosazubuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94d183ecfa23d8943170df1fe7dcb4c2/fapexatazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e12b5d79fa3358fd534540b401b7a1/47890985356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=physics+laboratory+experiments+8th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000bb96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB96 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 0527c02c438653e643294245386d0ca62ecb72a8e73b872808c5c0d60827508d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE657 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6E 11452 bytes
SHA-256: e326396753261db4eae85548f05bc38a8590ef4e82c55c7ede87e9c192ff2455