Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60df7d22371dbb1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-20 18:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: b4218791a195a727c0928ef0e0d0f222 SHA-1: 946b8bb48a876ae5d956693c7d66efe31a851eb7 SHA-256: 60df7d22371dbb1b14d9b5f611ec33c4ef2d14bcc93d5846b2a5461716d1567a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URL analysis strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/dudejuriwixivok.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd69a23ee4---25214289666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/sonoridupijusuzebigowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnk2k1k89dps76vft3ad30tt2u/toxupozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777a0b6157d---96835776090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/72007653899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92f5ec6df8---supisasoxuxitebirilamitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021052314064529387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/3508832664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607767a9845ba---14093917502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///rofovunifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7g92mjngu6cqi3a4isioudkrl5/45554055134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/51032539284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bada23667f8---22076307772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8mkm979e4l3t6dbs1m0h6heec/49690424291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/86478478888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da15d4195bf6d4e25e863e074d7a173d/17081487842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longhoang.vn/upload/files/mabikive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/91237185377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/mofuzagenumamexazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ce82da9f0---85156301774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ned%27s+declassified+sick+daysPDF 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_off0000ecab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C2 10264 bytes
SHA-256: a1215da1f055b7720eb7b1004043c8ab321cd7abfb73a6acd218aeabd258b478
font_02_sfnt_off00011bfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BFB 17068 bytes
SHA-256: a70ec281c139ad3e53c4bc5515ca3fc9aae1474a4b0c83c42467c6e0433cfa80