Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00f66d44f9b25c18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:00:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b36b3febb01635344aec2be105699ff6 SHA-1: 52832f9ed8dd5c4a86dfc661c0302fbc9e9c7877 SHA-256: 00f66d44f9b25c18b9735b5754acf402fdd04525b8d337f485f943e842080a15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to external, potentially malicious, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://circuitvietnamcambodge.com/hinhanh/file/80820391398.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5f4d23738---47264205860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/243420e96787c9fe60c1c9d1254a45d2/82342838297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/zezojezirivawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tmdcb3j1dj2n3c2ridfc4ujn0/18508942047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079efe969246---90929250557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d878e14729f06d13148294b156c611b/xizolozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edbff3117893f100ea3884bbc1d354c0/17144735038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f97157a7a---neletudutofogibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a7d3a4d6b6dbb5288d14127f50902a4/pipotefigebewomorovev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15214416769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoskinspugs.net/clients/40498/File/wivoweziwovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876a0fbacdf---62938287189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/32008443373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/2923538703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-07-13/images/files/kotamemuniwuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d030187c56bad21376038b51c30b578/gisopegugamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zavelewejupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f42c8db9a3ec25c8e5509a639b9730f8/vapexirexexuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/tazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/42471912943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2ur07gdin7dtishgs2ghmr1hb/24027452237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2154396afd---lorediruridavezezelowiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0358e68dccb7028fe12eccc74a605c0e/pogupifegalafodonaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e73ni9m313nj1em4bvc48tev2c/kifunibulimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=edukasyon+sa+pagpapakatao+grade+7+learner%27s+material+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD884 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 87681f44b3c9b1cae6b56da54c0a302f1f59142da9ad3c6f3d1e76c2617b782a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF308 17148 bytes
SHA-256: f38573a1539a17c9d41032c9b5ccd35f19cd90ac37d0265b97f1edc67d454047
font_02_sfnt_off00011f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1