Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d60cbf272f017aa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 10:06:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: fe26b3081035d2ee796281bb706ec318 SHA-1: bd3118d2d22ee97ecd9a7897ce3ab584ae452ffe SHA-256: d60cbf272f017aa8a7a80a00f8531aaae387e2768523d30512d0ef03261b5bb5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these links for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+mojang+free+online+game PDF link annotation
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff5ce74bdf3812e92a4753e83a66162/36735775729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d39dcbd972615332562514bbeb84622/33742714796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/puviviponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/podinunejuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608827a6a6ff3---memenikenufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roleranijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59f9607e420f23c9c5eacac9a4b99e15/24207405532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi.com/contents//files/fupipovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b37a86c83e---givepazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qga6mgbb8vrlliijrfjk69okr/xudojarewakajamiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/48998141721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jlgq4cl286tfbfvsao6ifm8dm/wogunaroximazivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivnerun.club/images/files/wasobajirugejebonewinavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfaspot.com/resimler/files/18076028219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/bagerarufududofime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86c88fcf2ff3a9e5963b8c1bb7c5be7e/15866941277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/38865976755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/namuwerukaginemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792d4c43546---kivodunexerexutaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086de1781005---gujizuwukiwopukajapofere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o74b46e5sas0d7nk3tiilogif2/gobuperapido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210615_D45102ADAAA4F247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/869b77326081e8b5af23a8ffee7516d5/voxafilulibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa15b9eefb7---18204506396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/dufotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/kategafasumiruwexu.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_off0000f8aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8AA 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 911d3e429935416793cdae4ad1b8c3d9a57d5d62ff869615e5ff7d3e05acd306
font_01_sfnt_off0001268f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1268F 10636 bytes
SHA-256: bb9f6fa01002df3c36ed3156a20f0ddf55b2c9dbc8d4417491e238a5f323b773
font_02_sfnt_off00013ed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ED9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1