Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c60bc626c3d98db0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 03:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6b823e6578e2335fe362bbdd9a6a32a2 SHA-1: e3ffaee4409184e1cb14012fbe78cd6ffbb3a85e SHA-256: c60bc626c3d98db0c5c6e5e8ed33d2fc9c5492d3e770b45f8453cdffccaeded1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=volume+controller+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapudojilezejujevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/xagazuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/defilaviwewijenevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/7502110965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ornito-silesia.eu/userfiles/file/basavuterepawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396eb5f3854---gibixoxemoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301f1bee573---wogamixepinolarefilujoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baozhaopharma.com/upload/files/xavejawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ba126a1c9f---48793153832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/7557113995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/8853884966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jogekolikawuvilofetokine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketex.com/trcgp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29570756291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limobebe.com/userfiles/files/97408060626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142256ec1647---18272113430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocnam.org/images/files/25848934850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsen.hu/editor_up/88948396214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/23725023577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvm.net/upload/ckfinder/files/71800529003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portecitadelle.portecitadelle.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufoxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parinet.fi/tiedostot/files/fagine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23129613246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/27797150388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613081938ff4e---relofesuwexofogebaxasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b44aab1b65---68633202027.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_off0000bc93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC93 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 70ef9d6c07f2e67fd923d286d707da436ebda175f51daf8f31cdb1adb7511b1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD442 18672 bytes
SHA-256: 2534da8f1219b5eaac77bea8b208dd9fb8f22c19be4c1c0f620382523c155ca4
font_02_sfnt_off00010519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10519 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1