Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60dd29fe6f9ce731…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:00:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 86539fd20dda3bcad5e6b78c1f438a09 SHA-1: 5837e273e4f4d00e52b1f381fbbd44a96fe1db72 SHA-256: 60dd29fe6f9ce731315feef6bdf535fad9fadf2488f5f73f2348cf82dc8c23c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded content are heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the overall detection profile strongly suggest it is used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+saber+tooth+curriculum PDF link annotation
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/91539728430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/bedumosogugutafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24705664599391148904fe5bbf3eb74e/bojoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c354d1c98---vegavaviwizaweta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0a834f1c1---tozetozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd3fd3116---6801887490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0efd3f0f4---xebanididulefotuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1983298022a189c4ecf425c45c92673/lekokomafibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd101273fd---90319054319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4d6792ffc---4284478262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu.com/contents//files/79389804518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e28b234b70c576ad0b7d443c1795433a/18547181490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhs6rkbcrbgoi3suagm8ml770u/lanufurukugifike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b3c0b5d8d---bolalixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/nogavizunumigiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/71614002241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/56448421781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb2bc6fd2f---wakotakipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/vafafitubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c77d22068---jatemimufubiwujomofedugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n609evl7u4gtnjlf7jgj2jkjfv/30630168168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c71b62dec1c7b3d0b71848e08457d387/gedikatixifedulizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/pexuraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a389b73d5d4604405f08cbf4a55c24b7/75903445311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8345c611c29e8797d05195d86b93a83/vapefajeliriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000effd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFD 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 80aab44060e4b9f3ec2f99273455efe10cfb39ba919211ad1812975408571d4e
font_01_sfnt_off00011ca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134BA 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 7e9b7b464a1365be3442f02bcd92c1320b3e834ea96d1ff043f0fc9a8cb38daa