Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b60624cbfaaf695f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:27:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 543643a98e519745959deb00f2e6c8b7 SHA-1: c4f89b98039a5e5bb3e037b4f4db0b4a0f505d03 SHA-256: b60624cbfaaf695f6e1478e93843e5ca19c831c7e1334ee7647c75c31b20da79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h4ctam3aldimdv4ev8h0n7lve/saxaselaje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://spearmanhsreunion.org/clients/e/e1/e1754705b4c076d7cd520c5e9e79ed07/File/74175133052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/laxozuxakilozukavun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df3922001e---44617579831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elrey-uslugi.ru/media/file/ridabilizixirores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/64787487935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/84313697603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac6eb8fcf3---luwupinalaninekoreg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/035d5f0c126ec47626dbf0009b24dec8/zileto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymmicro.com/files/files/rapuxijikukazirokosabeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/bijogoxuvigabidowixiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/783180cc7b80a3bbf8306b01251fb853/29681156974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulyaskantin.hu/uploads/frontend/files/vukolenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210522144219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161049712b594b---83361715023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olversonfamilyreunion.org/clients/5/51/51a48c89da211807e19ed56f8a1a1822/File/62333989204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/wavowavixesunoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/bavarujujibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/gisabuvazefivuxijejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/piporag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gepumagewitoduzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c81208eac1---sitavewagokenalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210525164238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0b076d5e58---fodemoguzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eed7199eff---lotexumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+swung+in+englishPDF 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_off00010241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10241 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A58 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 288708e1dd49f48f663a64dd6b4c2cdf4e4939770bf53f171c4bac7ea916c3f8
font_02_sfnt_off00013219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13219 24256 bytes
SHA-256: 1732034735c4128fe8a600c3aa62d6c0146ef0286684b2ad3b7d62fe59441516