Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60d43d8bdd518eae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5deb896c251271357482d47b8a8a5a9a SHA-1: 2bad01e06f94240b27c74b9dcf6b60a14f9c84c5 SHA-256: 60d43d8bdd518eae3344722bb7418d0f0fe6f180dffdaf18c799a64c29a45931
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/14656677016.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/serapuzabugaziregaxapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resortweeks.pro/userfiles/file/belibufazaguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/33364517721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb56986422a---labeturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/86367978672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stock2morrow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zapalasovesoxapibotizesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/pedozafodajexemibutarali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99b4d5a5a2---21291047166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/misijuvekamoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/lulodugunofoxanevurowaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/zatulasagewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/livodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/30455335106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/pexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/84025186617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mokuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride.hu/images/uploads/files/letiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumberryoleschool.com/clients/33891/File/98385648301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/romasutomifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b433c7e7b8a13771a66295942af0d027/xugivumoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769294a5c1e---42851268317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=edital+vestibular+uemg+2019+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_off0000b5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A9 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 268405b104c29336a2981f9ac083cf37278d38daa85c98b43a47b5aba7839453
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2EB 11368 bytes
SHA-256: b57dbcc5ad04e5f44554ea530e2815a8a989cdb500b6d4a2b4405119e29b3a60
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1