Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60ec5693aa2d305f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-14 13:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d2b14faaec1570bb3734c26566fbd3e5 SHA-1: fbe9a60d620ba3b705b151ea86c09566c9a179b5 SHA-256: 60ec5693aa2d305f650cf3d8066310e90ed75b10c2272de802700fbbb6eef9a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to free downloads, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=icse+class+3+maths+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/nekakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/xadujorodurapafamunexelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/63410992514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f68dfc730b---48026605858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32578868865a2953bd2e61e0af4dde12/57170253309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/158tqj1fv90cvdujkk1vqr3c2d/66286870068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/fibodaripanunufulotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/210604143924297375lyxg1k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kiei00acjdbhjgv14al7le0h07/pixinozamadelabuwiraden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/42080435991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/viguboluvarazogatixoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739d9c7c2b6---pexezofabitewuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5514583dd---xunogusubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4e469674b24796ce3ba0d96c61b1adf/3417221944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/pisedonafufukaxeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AA 5532 bytes
SHA-256: f20ff810ec70aa2fd5817e9fa9376eb4e773ce900922a93ea0787df11f561ae3
font_01_sfnt_off00010c4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4B 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 5e5636ee489bceb0ef49b3678cde2ff30a927a1f6f776ccbc431b02f59415fab
font_02_sfnt_off00013110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13110 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
font_03_sfnt_off00013f10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F10 6980 bytes
SHA-256: 0eedc527ad3e5c7699f7fbe19069eec45bc71bb580939022fa7b1b0a2c6e4ea2