Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60ba3f0f658fbb4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-06-19 16:51:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e2307c7811cbcb174118ce540a90f7d1 SHA-1: 387b72c7aa3be3335675a7169711a08f4ff40f30 SHA-256: 60ba3f0f658fbb4d24f3ccd8611dc6da8e973ea24de2a3da8110b1cd01d057ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to WordPress upload directories, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/xapub.pdf
    • https://patriciobanados.cl/upload/file/
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d2f4540b6---rukobiraxivolinelusiv.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f39f0c2e8795c552b6b2ce366c6779b6/79236910847.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0710227de---96718311519.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a761d31910---xataponeke.pdf
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/gurogakafa.pdf
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbe0e391ea---mafesaloxeparu.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddb4edd3fe90fb3705ef3284eae5ced1/bapapi.pdf
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rhaoi63q76dhdg8bph3kuh8i13/vozivejiwod.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c7f5fceedc8d92a1d1c4b8a11297d3/remuk.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b7701673e---62175256417.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799fa81e69b---xikowegires.pdf
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55343615574.pdf
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/33227812825.pdf
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fc0de2033fd7b7f2ca64f88b2019956/58511949534.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+mighty+boosh+season+1
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6e1.bin
8cfd96c82e726097f2f5745de0a41425374c4e64aae43bdcb7db3a69bf9a4b2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E1 5004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7cf.bin
b0bfc279e0d31a681e190623416601d05883fd75890ea35bbb5697d190c28849
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CF 10788 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011cdb.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDB 4324 bytes