Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f60655ac35405f37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:45:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 67f74d37722bcb6dbd95a90a61d31808 SHA-1: e968d9b8217c3de44ad2a1d5a1fe56f800971b0a SHA-256: f60655ac35405f376260d2cf052a43b8ccbc12b1c64c95ddd52c477a1c34a629
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. The file likely serves as a lure to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/lubuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///75367164110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/80037510720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/92353749333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetsnab32.ru/userfiles/file/gaxevumezopibemoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/66259989131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/77004064228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49019877815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://v-lukomorie.com/uploader/files/futuzonorapesezuzepatexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rexant.by/upload/editor/files/54812467530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/21137713961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melhi68.com/clients/69549/File/pepefofugizudipumases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouh9nufo7k2pqs7gns16itu0fp/69653011772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/desozuforum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22969052982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c04898c764bc1e7259ec1c3e8b8156b/56911281417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5ff47d3a0---64956213524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4e30293c75---74956234097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwerapirafonabofujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86475542854a3806708756fcca463244/53582257592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3768f0d60c---32372126000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/zamigefanamikodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/67834142892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf34e64d2f---fogajozinajilezawelura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=measures+of+central+tendency+for+grouped+data+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000fcb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114CB 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 5b8efde889988d51e83e68b758fc4f541f7582aa1ccfce078dca20924d3dd11b
font_02_sfnt_off00012eda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDA 18820 bytes
SHA-256: 387fa601de2c44807143509036d27b56f7573b7b4f4bcdd5dc446365627fe3c7