Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60fd2255199ced25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fd8cf7ed7fd50b99131a2c787ea2dd25 SHA-1: 4142375bb35282866061530d388c2393c56771fb SHA-256: 60fd2255199ced25c8d0b7e442064d6c874fd8311c30f172dd6fd567150e3ff9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, indicates potential for malicious actions like redirection or further payload delivery. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unblock+friends+on+facebook+android PDF link annotation
    • http://protetyka-lublin.com/images/wyswig_images/file/tiratawesegisatowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingchucontrol.com/Uploadfiles/files/80282571641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/bemodawewaxezonizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/13791941166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/17155797311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/79255599202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/tazufali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptwash.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/vijogutisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135837130054---rolivitiguzigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapokcmassage.com/uploads/files/202109191607408222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/mewumepesofazuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161438b1955529---59978595126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7f11368d21389e88c572dcfa65845eb/vupowiruvafonaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/vikejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a5ea2b50b---35010151246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/bobusowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmclimatizacionhvac.cl/images/subidas/file/tasanerasonawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/nakozedojazumumutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robvancampen.nl/userfiles/file/xizavaxubaxixukufadela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruaszarate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53388822312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70788458374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingstop.com/uploads/files/tafozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ramseier-appenzell.ch/elrada/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63887035640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/40732054368.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_off0000de99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE99 10612 bytes
SHA-256: f450fa3aeb0c9a8408ffdab1183db9d253704b4fdfea4773d891ee99a35919b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010efd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EFD 18324 bytes
SHA-256: f85060a2e594bcbab782c283df603346395a85a227450d4e8e7aa72c75f66a96