Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af60230f737e79e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-10 00:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7f2a49a32d5f04585a3b26c4c23121c4 SHA-1: 284133066b9b563e4d10c5e82f3b862153b71fc6 SHA-256: af60230f737e79e748425014f0bf6d13f8cbc675cc2c9bf1507c5d33a046fb8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://cukrarnakolbaba.eu/obrazky/files/xevumixopumotilalutita.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7ccb5c6344---gubuzafesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4rj0volco93fjd5s0639daul1/pejajekesukaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b021bb05ba---86335061207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/toxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/kinorubaxutenobis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5694973fb4---romiwawedikisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-system-packet.com/userfiles/file/16486228159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/4334470747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610aab299dd0d---26590354410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22d48390a6---41628333767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elrdk1recdti1ptts8vtqt0s42/75680542206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ddgs86gf193et50c0rvcbnn4d/56782296090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/sixebivaxasenonowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1da06627e702f32628e72707537e3d1/domekewajimavonoxopakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2afb613383ba6d051a65a09091e3c79/3267758487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/laribogimosapesosemupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/64254922168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7bcaa124a---86715822192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/6583734107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34732383940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608988b039dc7---kiwomosapuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/sitebelosunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+keyboard+a+complete+guide+for+absolute+beginners+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_off0000dccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E3 11484 bytes
SHA-256: 59ac79e56becd6553b323df0e1852e57af23b902ea660a7571e3c88dcf45e439
font_02_sfnt_off00010fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAC 17504 bytes
SHA-256: 2a6ee8312c78b2390a954b4851e8a1ad5ce8e053945be8849ae2c6c337afb4fc