Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60f8bf32c377dc3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-06-18 10:19:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8bfe8be95d24c9fba62eb7ef15e82228 SHA-1: 3ca36121dff69477957f0af3ec40d811867c9f73 SHA-256: 60f8bf32c377dc3a99fed561ca75c296cb6946f54c707385c8ba5b9258ff36e5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a social engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=human+health+and+disease+class+12+neet PDF link annotation
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/bosedomarixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/pamifozetokivepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/80012751206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92a572278e2fb2702179124708feeda1/tizamejupagalozelugagoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c0c81a426---55813976349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210605144730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b292f20106---xufepuwosebagira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762e8d41abb---witepawomadulilawereli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5154896dc5d060cc27c3e569740bcf4d/32582814925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd17a4a50e---rizinupagefumoviper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/80337058481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32c2932d7f403e25b5fe9805d3ac75d1/27558773586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d1ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AE 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 519d65a56f0d99b8fea7986ed6d62f4828cb031bd167bd30b60e87e7b4aaab4b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE351 10876 bytes
SHA-256: d06a607273a0492c7b740af84c01838c4d2f7ef385f2e5cabb622ea3a179f7d6
font_02_sfnt_off00010879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10879 16092 bytes
SHA-256: ea75db71c9df7250347a03039f742fcd189f5fc3f08964e696816fa8b5227073