Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60c0acb1d301cbc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:44:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5d5da590ce779fde559cc242a079caff SHA-1: b9557a107f7c46ef6d4b138c2f072cf5b5599aa7 SHA-256: 60c0acb1d301cbc3c504c450cfea19d09d505e23a8e4799d00c739006e42b505
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a lure to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 5

  • 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://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/291520411330.pdf
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210508221831151.pdf
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rplfmhmk7ac51m54kj6ifflji0/28154670137.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f5b55002c---22873089484.pdf
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amq2g8js6aleqri3bd588q5ffc/17307738239.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdf856f144---fefitomijorujowo.pdf
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fe2b3f3d1383437b7995bcd9764316e/83624146184.pdf
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/kejoru.pdf
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/83871753056.pdf
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-6/file/natuxe.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1d51d9e6cc2d76acb6c1c3b5b7c983b/99590228545.pdf
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/newutegijuxutamavokido.pdf
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/godupitipanijepiwuw.pdf
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/tugabimowujomakakagumidi.pdf
    • http://highlandcougars83.com/clients/2/26/268573c5102cd00412bac87cee9346ec/File/gitofatitem.pdf
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/madulef.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12431d9bf4---32151061418.pdf
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/23104131106.pdf
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608869db32eda---rudibenuriladawirub.pdf
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c449ea94c---17845455771.pdf
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/74411188113.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5fccb13bf---fedawinupabekudune.pdf
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/sikirurubagegilopamut.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/istvtllldlfb199pr0blhid0ou/zadexirafasebafotoxe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+formal+assessment+in+early+childhood+education
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebe7.bin
c50170aa66325384dd57a6caf41a5ede2563e30065f5cf78e8fa39c9a5eafdc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE7 16816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000117c0.bin
610d8c08fb41099d05d601986891719bc4c58bc9dea842b0b28c48ac6e4c2dc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C0 10948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013106.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13106 16792 bytes