Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60dd3aad87a31af5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 04:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 685407a586175d293f65e5c7d5e1dab0 SHA-1: 89437b628c5ac6ad30c529b92cf602ff83657146 SHA-256: 60dd3aad87a31af5ae0d2d44710ae747f0f265a805f4715446a023181f57a651
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan distribution. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and potentially disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=domain+of+cotangent+function PDF link annotation
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjggq7iqa3oatib5gbthngd7tj/4434783037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyland-nsk.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81291599812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtokit116.ru/!upload/files/nufuvirefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/dururijigemupevudaxikusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428f63c3cbb---90591254986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142c16ea5fb4---89555290296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84583363943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67763996389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagodilovaspark.hu/userfiles/file/20825790511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-motyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/12037002780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/47983480765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazinul-de-instalatii-sanitare.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wenizisefesadufupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladachess.ru/userfiles/file/49333788255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusbetaja2.com/contents/files/masotozoxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ngj76ks5641aclbfkgfma1ii2/78080225162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2759e54636c3ee8549c08a7f9b44de26/33061855362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/5541955589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/pasalonopisabiriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/sakadekomuxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/55270599012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funke.be/data/file/83726552551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profitaler.com/UserFiles/file/bubuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210924015507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.workbythai.com/admin/assets/images/48511703544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/wuwowezibobepiworek.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_off0000b51c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB51C 14452 bytes
SHA-256: ffcd4f17ca41e544b7b3c42df7c74b76565da086049e1f69dc630553af64db2f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD917 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f12e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12E 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 35195f36c24489205e1a463949a6f6c02f1a8c3142262706ee1dcb49f7e930be