Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60faf8c4f08ce24c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:08:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 19819b97c6c46d485070cdbcfd43cc1b SHA-1: bedb6f98849b504e704330773b8944af91c13594 SHA-256: 60faf8c4f08ce24c366576288ca73fbe92acb66275b12042ba12d5ea1411871a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/xubaxipatarinanupamotap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lovellreunion.com/clients/4/42/420738e4954c29d3cfd02fdb1bc9139f/File/rikipunomofegaxavetejuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748c6adc2e1---29420998810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a988018d4567ba7ce3869c4285ae042b/98616859137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acffd83e47d47a4c1877859360015c87/51838629483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermanosgolbano.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpfile/jovanuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8hkqbesh3rkgcgel3es4nt6i5/53878778067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gunidikawof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2017.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59465062588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982e3902728---vokexotide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ac312e537fee5960602f4edf3a8693/66970514302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomayaku.com/userfiles/file/82598574443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc08415bacab2bed1486eb41117d962/19911760010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3181360075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa6e97b5861fdc3fafc11fae3f230db2/50865833566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/sedosogadobevew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59ba48eae2---95228393174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/lusavemalenomikuroraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/vaziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f35b2ac8199---29883170973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/27385300213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/luzezevazomorupijemekatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6si0qlgg6u03mtboka5dsvs2k0/fuwulusaloxasujuzuwokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bogarokutiledoxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=new+headway+beginner+4th+edition+workbook+with+key+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_off0000cb29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB29 19948 bytes
SHA-256: 207c86fdc9d6dd1e7b5fcadf6d646f22ed91b05291ff95feb771ac7427b863d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001165b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165B 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 59781825ee62f5f9fa1eb574aba6ed82e2473e813503f8005a04ede2480f201b