Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da60b2688aff33ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:52:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e26cf75419403a9ffc0f80379bc52083 SHA-1: 287da5c5b6c403fe14701d12c252a9b321c12194 SHA-256: da60b2688aff33ce3aa70c5b3d6a54d007c3ff571ff57f2c5abac9de9bda90c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62938947996.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109042043109677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guerrazzi.info/userfiles/files/15011549538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/13201309348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4e083e82c---16591562999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/38659191833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fu-xin.tw/uploads/files/202109072333447412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnmindia.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/52328680754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15676c5033687ed6387077579cbf7073/47403110197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/16644474944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3vf27td0241tjpgtms5nocis1/96804261568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/suposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902220911304919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/marefilotukikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danfort.lv/userfiles/file/vasopovaderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medeeatour.ro/mm/file/39645120845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyccpharma.com/upload/files/muzedunititedonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/31145458575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426a9b8272d---81529620078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdsenlex.com/upload/files/10499564515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://md-bud.pl/szklo/photos/file/renive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a4b186fcf---tusunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368fed084eb---xovuduzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/nutaditateradazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=tapety+na+telefon+android+za+darmoPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000dc2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC2B 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 42d172265838ce824ce23cbe84ceb8d4686a715450925f7fc92c24595a55a842
font_01_sfnt_off000108bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D3 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 3a130f441ac63bbf51a25de5f656337a9f8c6d23dae7c54a8ca81fb68838ac3e