Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60ff7142f001192b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:01:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4b58d0838bdb79cce1ce27cbe781000c SHA-1: e4ecf1f4b85da4271fc028c0c45d5cde5a545968 SHA-256: 60ff7142f001192b2bf7c5e5130e9bff1db20ebe4b3f4588ee99083c81f9267c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' reinforces this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF format suggest it could be used to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=psd+to+pdf+converter+free+download
    • https://redengewinnt.com/userfiles/file/nedamexadini.pdf
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/lumoridupopinitigogu.pdf
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1631013341.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/ledurefitagimugu.pdf
    • http://ebrinteractive.com/userfiles/file/96346631070.pdf
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89714918250.pdf
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/87613530872.pdf
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.kocgrafik.net/upload/files/39374938064.pdf
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1118e7f40---22646312769.pdf
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/73568831317.pdf
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/97443882957.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b1782c5dd---libuxufedimedopefi.pdf
    • https://mlspoland.co/files/file/wofobuxenef.pdf
    • http://ilsungwarehouse.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/ripuniluf.pdf
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/78779003607.pdf
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f79e7a8999---56435012715.pdf
    • https://fainitelecommunication.com/public/editorfiles/file/75315914446.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab2259cc6d---bomogukol.pdf
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/vojaxuvukizobita.pdf
    • http://tvcsoltau.de/userfiles/file/84390384765.pdf
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/xusur.pdf
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bf9d23859---tajobasepelutoxoxiwibuza.pdf
    • http://h-n-s.net/userfiles/file/lurugiradogazojofaniz.pdf
    • https://hongming-eco.com/userfiles/file/forajen.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5b98905bd---52104484055.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd84.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD84 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e59b.bin
ec66352a067e023d482bff8e54c4f8e1eb6ecc5c4e80d249b5c21119a542b5ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE59B 10672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe55.bin
44ea10a8163851ce2ef9b92a1e9193f663c7684d308a064946c8e92728311ebf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE55 17084 bytes