Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60c168408fda854d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:04:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 13429d475e70a9e568f81c34ac1e3017 SHA-1: b523b27db62eadc9fdbc4f2859ff99c40743b88f SHA-256: 60c168408fda854deb71e75816bef30f888b897b8bb9ce4e66f2d30ab7fe9f0b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of urgency language further supports a social engineering attack. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://yuhongzg.com/d/files/4067787449.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/lesepezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/84746163180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/1058162677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanasulcikova.cz/userfiles/wedagevepazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378a13d9157---41648569748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zniczekowalczyk.com/user_images/file/zedejiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/tupomuxoxekojiregevovogod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandfiltr.com/files/file/36443047104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5399540146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rotenuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografieindex.nl/images/uploads/44009532456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5444f187452c2600665d93d25ef1db/naremaxumizedono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/dizeger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robustbrakes.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/91750934072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/widemakinibafafagepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/rutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcrlclient.gilcom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98413877805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamonavobiberej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/bawolixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/gomibogopafokudelosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/865ea9f51c24714b1e8a762f6414686a/zobukedonasolalimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xesamabixosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karcannakliyat.com/userfiles/file/zupeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.it/userfiles/files/mizitimumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=sla+example+pdfPDF 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_off0000edc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC5 18880 bytes
SHA-256: e19ffc8027f0576bf9e9c4c7d79a8718735f1517af7501ec41c72cabe6e70b25
font_01_sfnt_off00011fbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBD 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 5836b49851c9c2fdbff69e80177ca42f17f90dfd5b22e2e9b4b1e54349b1b88a
font_02_sfnt_off0001367f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1367F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1