Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60d1c74bc7b6b864…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 16:55:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 249bbfe1a283511e7f71a6ccd759045c SHA-1: 937944ab57d2569688a40d9ec941c687e07c54dc SHA-256: 60d1c74bc7b6b864fc419947e269cf5e1024f20b290a1561be71c6999db520ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics confirms this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efae1a51b6e99439dec14fb0950fade3/sunopubasetarusino.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/70878072098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/95066417046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cee5fa8b2b7---70450252612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/75252073410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd366cf384---jefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6i4gt2cnhergf4pjsk8k8d7ok/sidilamorenufaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c47bad48bbe73d15be6133d12316a2/32470859623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa99781e291---zenifefojosume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montrealinkwell.com/clients/c/c4/c478fb9048b4d856ed1aa16e2301f982/File/tolajatutadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/puwonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/291b65ef74c39366a8e688afb154fbb7/14736162595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd58d3492b---tavepilewadasipalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/27653054807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joruxubetotevuxeninojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/22917821439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbonag.com/luutru/files/tudovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqtot0jikll5r2156i7flllr24/27883978625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709eaf11b60---nijozakikidepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e57f562810---61532117393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77808082f110fa8ddda1916dd0e3b5ee/duxenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f8f69b209---kovogewesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/jebuwizuregakerojuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9c905cd458---vodupelivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=have+intention+ofPDF 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_off000148de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148DE 18592 bytes
SHA-256: b9b1c982f9cc9a550c07d471ed70b75d9352e630e955015a97ed5cb7bb6ae051
font_01_sfnt_off000178b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178B1 9948 bytes
SHA-256: 197dbb9faafca58264dacacf3fd726c56e359ec5bc4309b2d301738570884867
font_02_sfnt_off00018ecc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18ECC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1