Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60b946166e283230…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 99ec0c324415e29d686dd1fea8bddc94 SHA-1: 1ceae1f9dd08fcfd60425616920f2cdc70e80405 SHA-256: 60b946166e283230a406d24844919dce36863a40c94418370eda5588db6fa096
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'downloader apps for android' UTM term in one URL indicate a potential attempt to deliver further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rojuvu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zinivibejujexigifazixilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/jibufujuboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134868bd5751---36139432663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenstadt-apotheke.com/userfiles/file/70263394085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przystaneknida.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/64073006289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://membermimpi.com/contents/files/33420160802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/12181807033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80493059468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kehlux.lu/userfiles/files/4777611967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temtechnologies.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotaxeseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsiaoying.com/userfiles/file/91734859949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurmitra.com/files/file/dujunujobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/sameza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65271477186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonahotel.vn/UpLoadFile/file/toxuxiwaxidimosesuwimafok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347096a3084---falururumapufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/tamodarumerikovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.es/upload/19617819401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba548053695b37bd9bef6fc35fa9b0f/mudiliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmrcstvm.com/userfiles/file/79134586626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtqedu.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/gasibubenidivebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehaircenter.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zejinevagitugaromek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/25043153736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwomubagoguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=downloader+apps+for+androidPDF 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_off0000dbe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE6 10480 bytes
SHA-256: cdfb268c934f88e7f32775f9d964d9cbd6bb6126c1def04ebf7ad56cfe903e6a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D0 18568 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff5831403f8f41c589c02789d5293bf31384345e14a8d7db306ad4331a62f54
font_02_sfnt_off0001238c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1