Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b60ce1cb37f8b296…

MALICIOUS

PDF

181.5 KB Created: 2021-08-15 22:20:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9a0f34f67aa33bfce5900e62d1827245 SHA-1: 8e48a68889f7881f4a7d5ae93f2bca79ea4d8f7c SHA-256: b60ce1cb37f8b296f941a0b54ca4aabfb741f9aee280e0057980d1e5539ef286
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and utilizes SEO manipulation tactics, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9962

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+net+worth+of+dale+earnhardt+jr PDF link annotation
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1292a494d---roberaxeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-delighted.com/user_img/files/46645641940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodulixajujegadowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e02bec893---72997791557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e05fb8a38---5346065889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/75106149939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/vibawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/nixosogunibogixaxume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/wiriduxonasutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumkin.ru/files/files/zimejugobisipafome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60b0457f02a5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huthamcauquanggiap.com/upload/files/vegesibukidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8u77mm5dj7g5e6nsa6g9n324p/lokomitejolowaxunikobalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077177a26962---76277005946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6uqpiuhs5a2stbfl1g9o24cio/wimixulomataxubinatelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3add1bd7d2---4448015587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/69779735348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/70903066682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca9699dc1a0b629416b2319bf0dec60b/mizanuvodapoladed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/lipisareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7372b2109---86571067938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/42231557262.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_off00026669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26669 10660 bytes
SHA-256: ec202b53e294f987d87b16071a6ce68471137efc0caa9a3d3f9386366d906342
font_01_sfnt_off00027ec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27EC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000296db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x296DB 18612 bytes
SHA-256: e2aaf3cb8241c730d7916ee0a4ab318a06521ed1ca5f19f586b2e861d3634ea1