Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a60a292c0ecdc318…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 21:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 791b98baf4efe49a6ce9a1ed79bd1ce4 SHA-1: 2f39dddcfdc215677a7fcc67409af35c9bb5c9ec SHA-256: a60a292c0ecdc31848e0146bb4b73a65c39ed3fc48b274554ac3f68402610d51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to various websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content, rather than delivering an exploit directly within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kawasaki+ninja+650r+2011+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/8655880982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heimundsicherheit.de/userfiles/file/moradaxamivazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/60448184665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132de8cb4267---90130435558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkrns.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1403434199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k12kos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22463135585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilybarnes.com/DEVELOPMENT/VERSIONED/emilybarnes/trunk/sites/default/files/file/lejogifazelifajamokifumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/pevurenelunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57698038462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce6e43d2cf61c9e8e06fe2ec4087d422/30888853112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuminhtam.com/Images_upload/files/23599174724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903105517621342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93209089581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45732826653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/244d213a5de5af1ad3d91d2e748c0482/tuwomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-malkov.ru/uploads/files/jezewuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338bc97c61c---kemitewigisoderowodilewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioicamdo.com/upload/files/55866404599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fourfoods.com/images/files/5154235940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paramountswimwear.com/userfiles/files/81602181033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdrjioo.friend-match.com/upload/files/88267451914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325fdcb61da---74392242927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/bekunoxosaxodalekewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhchemicalsfeed.com/upload/files/foronomezevogifegipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/18295712613.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_off0000e549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE549 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 62e546fd0ccd587e6a1baa8b9209f2d78128776effb67330ecf627b0796588b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B8 17556 bytes
SHA-256: f4cff190cd3d1bcb2a8dbe3bb8e45d918ec96a8ee5a55b188b96a8a247096726