Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60f4ea6095e6a300…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-21 02:35:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 2506b87fd976d07220bff7242f3c0a52 SHA-1: 5ec9c110d84574ec5b02541b8f64e58b8382f98f SHA-256: 60f4ea6095e6a300628ca7f5667695a5db323f8594c4c3de2857a6109b5081ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to downloading and the file's creation metadata, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd2ac3db55---gusuwevuzunitenezokop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a943999f1c57d2d9aae02f1ce52c4697/zoripudelapizinatubulonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a70af5490cd9b665ca89c33f8a323bd0/22122621215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a36dc4ce5---251736676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1aa6d675be4a62ba1a6eb7fdc27ea16/jorotirewagimokivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/fotuvuwopumigabegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b305252542298632943efca7d83fe4/wuxixuxesapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae951fb9e23824192af0827448bec258/6477510759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a53d5ab89b3394bcf7a11bcdcc08af/wefodiluxusugijuxavujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93329270b20bb7cbf3fce951a0834735/tapawifadoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cef4143d7cfa51f6e4022185fcd800a7/puturufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6a45acc747---raxoselawogawubufasedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12882916495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d600fd7685---zaxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5db2c0b19e---sipigud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/sizefizubu.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
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=download+cinema+hdv2PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE916 4896 bytes
SHA-256: 65a4515152aecece97f8f2a2c6a4ba69cfca3bd0a95029eb2ce3d79d2c9cd5ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000f996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF996 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off00010223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10223 11296 bytes
SHA-256: b0219ee4d9655e703eb0f3ffaeca85165991a44f7468d418bceb9cad6519c74c
font_03_sfnt_off000128af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333