Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a60be0740821a8ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:18:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a3f2a0a9b95dab501dc421291dd6b2eb SHA-1: ab27612df8c7fb63f765ba808240632ce506fd45 SHA-256: a60be0740821a8ed2bf6f76f618fe9d2d7b9839706ac71a1c0c7f0a0e605732f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious sites. Several heuristics indicate the document is part of a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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 http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/powonubizavowin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ceramvetro.net/userfiles/file/sikememufevimoxamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71794011805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2m4cqrhmlddheeegvj3ugj1ub5/87940995678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios//files/3437735502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610501738db0b---28904867608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zanejezupide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50c06bde58bed9bec4fc8c6e1f94db6d/detosukibebojoligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/24812970743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252c509d5e5e638ac65511ccf73b77e3/99419549105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/liduxadomuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/39478549519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45555511408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukra.sk/editor_uploads/files/74250174676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/29352636603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagakuratrading.com/js/upload/files/45872222924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56f6c6ca61---59648217237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b10555558---51056581379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/kasufasederavonakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5d85215f7---xodapumitenefujalasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57988352953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35693fbda5d0497cda3c5af644324d7/nuxowijupokijivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19459808826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v78fp97n0s9o52t5c6gh4islfb/pilojedeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=imperative+in+english+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_off0000dd18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD18 17356 bytes
SHA-256: f841e625d43a968983ff98ed15ec5da51911f69e78eb5a49b6f3ec63e537ec27
font_01_sfnt_off00010a28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001223f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223F 10844 bytes
SHA-256: f8a0062e1a3e4b55e391bdd1c5b2edbf59da4fd2f96db66bcdf7854d1f167bf6