Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d60c10441e167489…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:27:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8f7e9ad035c37efa4364374f4c533ee4 SHA-1: 4137b6ab9f8197c437c1c52575c2eb96561b9e4a SHA-256: d60c10441e167489f1790ee19e109cfc6db2366fb2fca3a4e8ef340dba936cf5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious URLs. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests an intent to redirect users to sites hosting further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+about+racism+in+huckleberry+finn PDF link annotation
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072799e52146---mawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/307912604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b437fa0835---24191513370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/wajuzeroxiwuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2be97afab3---56985689196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://living-stone.lu/userfiles/files/wisajirepagegezulorevikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/808e9942ddce6b15cadd2301f7cf0b21/kalatopowawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080607c6729675c60865170d6166730e/17845954769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/zapawezirupaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baxofizemanawadobova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7t3gqi7u1bv94eiecvapcn905/xesuxojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/13678469513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/luputodikimemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/gitinurelogepaniperaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnpntpmftmdf4fglfpvjq9auta/lapit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/zixamudujanigejijewijazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/88729370163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a82c03e325---kuteduvabulomivanapawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845a4304dd---jigajusomoxegujevewubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d02384deb5---kosemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8f147fd3b---beroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/kuzonukivobodapovakajuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df49d986369bcbdab921aadca6636c20/33215295058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41c5aaf71f---wonubatemef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a537ba96967---jakajewutavo.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016f58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F58 2984 bytes
SHA-256: 5023163a499b22cd2e55ced86cfe7ce600b05ae72bbc2247a15191ae26e3f316
font_01_sfnt_off00017bcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BCF 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 36503193c5a420fa2d3eaf11e44da41930aca952c6de0c98d6d31944aae7bd55
font_02_sfnt_off000195a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x195A9 17380 bytes
SHA-256: dcb3e0807adcffea192814cce3b27985e0133b6fa7190a80487fc581fdc08ccf
font_03_sfnt_off0001c2e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C2E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1