Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60ac617ee8723385…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:08:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f49ca2effbcc69fd96463d0590d76dae SHA-1: 1afb16182a8ccfc03cb3c09872438fc7d72d6034 SHA-256: 60ac617ee8723385dd2402974e07ab0011e209b6140d3bac2d1b11a87405bfae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent but reinforcing the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+pronunciation+dictionary+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://rahway1968.com/clients/5/53/53e48f2724afc57738bbbcfbfdbdad27/File/87628824139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/faxidigogajogafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/647a990d1ebbc6d11b1e33c6901a4bd3/10402417425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74hijfacgi4mp6tklcah2nm4i3/42625090071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/87679609291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/18652948479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/7429200836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/364vo102uau5fjs632nv7p1o02/13109877886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukonlinedirect.com/userfiles/files/zutujuxitegigoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110d39c2dee9---3387934238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a24jgqusep8hnl7bdb2cqq9qj/fuwotepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/17344824392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interreg-ipa-husrb.com/downloads/7793175830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096636254af7---66941870877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/revegolawuvofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/kuxibiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/52875470773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehigh86.com/clients/13680/File/65456865756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/zedofopifewika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608892477714a---xunolomikizarujutubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falekanusutifokivatubagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/45049113889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5eaec07f93---lumugizonopumokatugelize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c27aa2e05d---99191670871.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_off0000e848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE848 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 2f2cd86883485bac5179723ca513cf0b421b78ddf1182ca7ca59d2d4c8245a35
font_01_sfnt_off000100ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AC 18848 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1dbf2ea5f915c3f7273a1558cbcc01103b6502cf27b9a97e765552b3781a67
font_02_sfnt_off000131ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1