Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60f4f7665b04fd7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:25:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7e5d2ffb6e1f52b02a1a26a5afd4445c SHA-1: c49eab9a0599bbe136e434bbba5e262fa345859f SHA-256: 60f4f7665b04fd7dab7afa12dcb359860dd747facb0b5fda3e1b6f61b34e14bb
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm intended to redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript further indicates a malicious intent, likely to execute further stages of an attack or facilitate phishing. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=try+graphic+novel+ella+frank+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/kewovalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sterenstein.ru/userfiles/file/32606274451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2d0de918b---japulitumejifimotules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55055489813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353b25b2046---2858712959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neapol-m.ru/usr/file/48936613403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12491132611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/75369921840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021090907060051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/84121325135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casaalu.com/luutru/files/96905790411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/goxugilimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/58739484529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338c99196c3---98827952961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khoahoc.timviec365.com/picturesfiles/98738155162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/renibexevogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/99885608016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/rutozofezefuvawiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/9697243711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindel-relax.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movenojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/mekuzige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsongpharm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pizoxoporat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/69235542352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portofmiamitunnel.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junosud.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d71f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD71F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF31 17244 bytes
SHA-256: c0483457ec6146c300b0194063b8041f9964f8be4772dbe44449c097727949cb
font_02_sfnt_off00011b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B91 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 0196872ce14cd91175323d87dc3d1db500aae8932c1d88c35949765a17721e09