Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e60e1ad6d7f8b756…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:25:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2eea13e048410773d210ce8f8445c049 SHA-1: ad8e1fd317f8ca4c0e46e071e3d7e3265e937b44 SHA-256: e60e1ad6d7f8b75613b127d24175771d5c3d33e5271811c3a48c6a0ba366746f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be malformed, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific intent beyond the observed link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9801

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 http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/vutigosilo.pdf
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/80061682434.pdf
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88808711337.pdf
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/63250828675.pdf
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjg0sb9v5nj0s4k782d661pgbi/23355023158.pdf
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/55059002646.pdf
    • https://livre-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40313083304.pdf
    • http://xpeedon.net/userfiles/file/20210902063350.pdf
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f32b7124d1---93208284010.pdf
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/6677464670.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5fd439544---soriweguj.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608691e855404---fopuditirizebinizuj.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a4f853002---vevijozariduzapilomimok.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076da042ade3---fafevebibemofojiwu.pdf
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e45821201d96bd7dc4abe3f8e201fbc/61890133028.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1e6badf67---42327229681.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8bcb0ab36e8b9e61d72cca567d18fb8/94349449186.pdf
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/73286788520.pdf
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/47139365475.pdf
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fd24331b4---xuvoxoxatenunagalapomozis.pdf
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/pavak.pdf
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/kaxakagisetoxi.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicomancini.eu/userfiles/files/37022391452.pdf
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/gavatuteraziterobinarox.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d938b7c65---78705629081.pdf
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/kupeb.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=adding+page+numbering+in+nitro+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • 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_off000131de.bin
bf5434e9f45dc83b352b68493ccc9ec3d5916f5a51b0933f4dbc873862fca59a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131DE 10848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014a73.bin
216dfaa926334e394e79307c2941875e880fcb303770bf097324138b73cc91fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A73 20004 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017e7c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E7C 16792 bytes