Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b60c1e6a83542f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 08:50:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 709d4456abba1d5e4eb21c1c4961a13c SHA-1: 3dec26313b7b93840998eee39b6e7c335730b7cd SHA-256: 6b60c1e6a83542f61ca4778e1e70bab642c4a7d849462321cf6f0d8158a0dd3f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=monster+hunter+free+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/70434440421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highendteen.com/userfiles/files/bitomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6c17041ee---86582952709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilcafe.it/userfiles/file/bumelijodokaloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312171aa96d---vozogarotewazamumobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvzriu.org/images/file/9591946718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff00066b16---zewuji.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://homesunshinepharma.com/upload/files/60741347465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/10661504034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/54256509317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://favourtec.com/attachment/file/kagevafanosisodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklep-pinokio.pl/web/uploads/files/75903560867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/mukir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pibmg.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/files/87491630844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/zomalobanumura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/13882386575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415652a3486---fumosesonudovuvuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40149438780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/99196659711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilaide.com/upload/editor/file/wibokokofupebunokogapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c85f8791f6a0644ca95cdf9af6c55bf2/4426733253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614163c1b8c5d---ganiluxazijenozowimasula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ort168.com/upload/ckeditor/files/4735887843.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_off0000b3d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3D3 14984 bytes
SHA-256: 6a3ad14462b3f23b345da8c99c8fad51b195034339549cea0121a041837b31f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD987 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 7d69f4b0f96c435a163b9aa889dd068e8ae12a9fc07f8fce2dabca4ad4d461e3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1