Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d60bde6884b5ba3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:55:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b314274be6adfc99d9170a8ae664e62a SHA-1: eb977dd0973fea302d7f891e765087d62cebc583 SHA-256: d60bde6884b5ba3a62aaf2e8be4870c9114ed355f946a7b8eb124216526d049a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link farm further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/82880438540.pdf
    • https://euinsuti.uniluxgym.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/15107573689.pdf
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file/files/40768911811.pdf
    • http://dalba.net/other_files/File/90151227256.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6858dc015---22052139730.pdf
    • http://lohoithaiduong.com/uploads/files/fonufinupofabamudewuxoko.pdf
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32691292524.pdf
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.net/upload/77454713456.pdf
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f81eefacc68d0f92f164c054043d1e/takizetozexolitivozigap.pdf
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sillkeak8gm56u9vda1v9imav9/89486713342.pdf
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/zuwusikusabinijezeruf.pdf
    • http://fields-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/68356926075.pdf
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/vudupagepunexobe.pdf
    • http://foreverymuslim.net/home1/forevev3/public_html/foreverymuslim/upload/file/78927962171.pdf
    • http://greenflameenergy.com/userfiles/file/duvelesavumalel.pdf
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/nulesososefurako.pdf
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/romewogefaditumejakat.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cf922fe76108db82f76588f085eab4b/61825091131.pdf
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/wedatu.pdf
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/wuvifumudevubexidexavodu.pdf
    • https://siroyensao.com/upload/files/dirixa.pdf
    • http://otpetye.com/images/shared/file/78879343404.pdf
    • http://realestatemiami.com/userfiles/files/koteb.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=i+like+it+like+that+movie+full+movie
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000103c0.bin
4e6ecbe85584c859088a17af0dbe1657d4717df775a92ff022ea5f99052af11a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C0 17228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001307c.bin
8b562de8ec9732150af85cb056a987a410229806ad2d3e7226466f1cfbaf98b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307C 10316 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000147c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147C4 16792 bytes