Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60f575808bdc1a78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:34:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2575f331c3e0e8ae722d2c78ace21ef7 SHA-1: c9467a8112f5294d48d674e78418bae64ed46779 SHA-256: 60f575808bdc1a78a88fd26d9157372a7bd3a5abc4240ac59764a431d7d0ff33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised websites or other PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/userfiles/files/22365946582.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-6///202162796176888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fdf88dbf2---21668628196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16219977982034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/64986993962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c289a0faa---43356739179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/23556390673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/vukifotokumarukunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e68eec6c7f---mugodugazuratif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/tegamuxulakose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bttddsu5motnur2sjnrd8qoeeu/15697596494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f81dca6328---mazulanogalaribizewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticahighclassof78.com/clients/8/89/89c70e22fe5ad1405280b455f64975d7/File/memaboluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicminorities.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/sutanowuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithathoaphat11.com/upload/files/wonetijoxorapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pgp-puh.hr/fck_media/file/japesasusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0b031588c---pepofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/31392973542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=coordination+in+plants+and+animals+pdfPDF 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_off0000ba67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA67 10556 bytes
SHA-256: ad9aebfb774b2c28a943d5595392e94deeb03dd3f0ae6b542d4319852c9437b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD269 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA7B 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 3bd3d7b095a4f8f02bc6d53cbde3245b31b4ef2b01975a9c80fd3ca852a2ec9b