Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60aa76a1287fec0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3e710a87b99a5d7a2bb3042ec67eab36 SHA-1: ef099e411675d41461ecdfaf46f2048b3fc250c7 SHA-256: 60aa76a1287fec0fb7f3faf6c9ed0db49af3264e6391bd87b41722a5ecf09caf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mt6572+custom+rom PDF link annotation
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/jebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f71e17101---likemimenido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents/files/zedabefezulixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nls.vn/upload/files/81773399773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/wudotodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/tifunevumelolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calienglish.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/78392713492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///16884514341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/46106146062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/98086324693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piotrkowska77.pl/zdjeciafile/kefapakedopesozerewevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a04f74824d---44334404047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30313916114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolaniprojects.com/userfiles/file/paponipizujamemukudagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicolamanna.com/userfiles/files/31591871856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkamerah.com/contents/files/xoxomuxofexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/zepuxiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangtatmj.com/userfiles/vuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s8uto50sji38n07dmf59ori59/71680047772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/10985319875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312ed87d433---36348157642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sukaxifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/565427315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB474 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8B 10420 bytes
SHA-256: c50e447ebdd225f3ec428d585323bb6985a4e55aa0e5efe9a76fe48c083aa732
font_02_sfnt_off0000e458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE458 16308 bytes
SHA-256: d48c56bd5d1a9e425a1d685a5140288a1a70e7abc1e5cce6501162aaaf01ed00