Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60c86c0f9b44d4ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:43:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a6c3dec074f85b0e2282e6a314d3a5a9 SHA-1: ca3ebbff871d2485ecd4e467e87c51affbee69a5 SHA-256: 60c86c0f9b44d4acd70b6ce79eeaccc279108a803f1f26454d59e60151d4f756
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The presence of multiple compromised hosts and disposable domains suggests an effort to evade detection and distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/93973210082.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00f86b5989d0f9bf003210bca50ff89f/65443989217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/67948635749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5d585d213---96451017267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9n6m2h03cp2uig9rk63n94sgb/wobutotafarufejebizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/wepitejexosuzabofikusoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc8762d5df---96267725818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd740289db3aa47828785b0ef857a32a/nelolavamupoxopowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc8bd429f277aa13efa6a2940d5c9803/domonijafupegenifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettogherardi.eu/userfiles/files/ruzovejekelasufumesur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3532ecf318e1fd595ac99974a9a0f0b/memijivopireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada7cd86540---409766150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///pavoposipirozivanejoduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/tinedeloxexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ff9971c07795285ca8c1381babf61fa/laxabore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwaywest1974.com/clients/861606/File/61315013766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/190c5c1a8eb908341eddf1eb5955ea17/ganixafawilotemuvodawanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m35v8thsjcne22b2prrlt4kjvl/suxiwabasiladizijit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f56e189c50---83047138786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59e7d0ef81---72397165191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=online+sites+like+omeglePDF 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_off0000eb41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB41 10304 bytes
SHA-256: b6d24b07decd4223104742e815eec19281ddc5cd8056b1d57d10fa5988312ac7
font_01_sfnt_off00010278.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10278 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 39b805e9420711106b73f1449a73d9eab11f843aa0b44849ff5b7973f152dbea
font_02_sfnt_off00012e39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1