Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60ee92ac37263d96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 09:42:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9dc04f24793b5695b4e7695b35e8afa1 SHA-1: 4ccfd77df04d790faba1b4f47ef2cb6b8cf3d40a SHA-256: 60ee92ac37263d964ba00182704db1a22393414320b3af4027fa605a0b7678e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan PDF. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF's structure and the presence of multiple external URIs strongly suggest it's part of a phishing campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81cb2e639ca67368171947455d73e8af/73207145796.pdf
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/fuwudane.pdf
    • http://robbinsfamilyhealthcare.com/clients/2/2c/2c787fa606fc56c3a3a24dfc5409695f/File/27536247151.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e2f088f31---dakekokazuvosubemomamebuz.pdf
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b2729902e908891ad97554a17f895a/39543986481.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29b92d8ee5ce7910728bae3e02689cab/53772014611.pdf
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd3b4f149b8ba6bc6c023bf8358cdd6/womobanolux.pdf
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501131511653553.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e61671664e---72572490471.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g5fb1fsruaee1aukpqp5cpgc5/puwawijima.pdf
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/69843861192.pdf
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b821f3212b8---welojumew.pdf
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/79444152946.pdf
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9dfeda14c---vapomunagafuxo.pdf
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92c206ed8c---dovuwizewawo.pdf
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ra0d6smfomo5h52g9fot37upap/pivemepoxutelunilijodenew.pdf
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ag33e2r8k5u0q3uk7mmng1bt5/83214591383.pdf
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/50159055123.pdf
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/viximetelagutijefara.pdf
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/vakejenane.pdf
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d379b42d3fe8dc3f3502e70c31337f8/wisaj.pdf
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a42dab76c3886d97f9c0f2aa5e560052/98105158717.pdf
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/37408074543.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9451d3b74---7900703620.pdf
    • https://yasacompany.com/upload/files/kewija.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+your+world+seed+minecraft
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f758.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF758 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f6a.bin
cbe36ff0e2b376ef1ee63f308767216708eaff7004041c5b48f075dc2d3b6223
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F6A 17720 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e57.bin
ff76d698f2df8c5286fcefb97a165b934c71b964670cdf05a8351e947f742979
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E57 10928 bytes