Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60efa41afd6ef451…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:21:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: bb9da368af3a25b14befdbd2a5851596 SHA-1: 1717de9386e50d62155f6cd0d44c98ed3c9464dc SHA-256: 60efa41afd6ef451bc8f129117d5aa0c5d7baf3d8f74f5bceab9637e31c679d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, such as http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300ebfe05b8---58141446047.pdf, are likely used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/xunovupamuxezitagad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yh-nutri.com/filespath/files/20210918120156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/613c8179d5aad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/71307202130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvavudimakigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/32774409869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/nakobipufuwupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/86122564810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movingalpsfoundation.ch/userfiles/file/pojudebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/99836234498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/58484343375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/waxewotutelaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/334767b92dbc0ceaf33f3e602ae07886/dosawebubimatugoxapamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93971249679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c5e6da5eb---14878784991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/sosetupuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/zabunokovesumelebabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143599943eba---vurixikefiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300ebfe05b8---58141446047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109140502074646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonarkella.com/userfiles/file/givulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hw-power.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/6142db13c7066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/64422669270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/63595343269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/tewuxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/64879644947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613849f6992a4---menanubujuzegixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=legacies+season+2+gomoviesPDF 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_off0000d6ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6FF 10472 bytes
SHA-256: f31ad621d45831af6c1e08714425b8119f8a4751c118a3063eec13fd517b95db
font_01_sfnt_off0000eed6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E8 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 4c2fb738c50f955d94e238c6c710537fddb03f285c900d266404a2c59601dde6