Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 066f7e38ea6e4a13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:51:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dee80fd05ac41eb0261c2d92e7552a2f SHA-1: b34fca6daaf79456020689f2cc8a6926b8274ca6 SHA-256: 066f7e38ea6e4a13fa879c1095f440a24ef3e505a80bd8a79f6156003297176d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious phishing trojan by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains multiple links to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613362d7c205a---sosanutavekunos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/32988052626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/11373768991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0d2213593---25396397807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rais.bg/uploads/file/diwozuvawatewasevoxipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b4f94c4851---55970900947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/25056795195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnarch.it/userfiles/files/27282573032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/55100963506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/28308709741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/jibuxulugazapererival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bjjewels.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/66452213160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.syrahresources.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rikilapudexezerizelalaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodujakatavuxesujujiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/79043670721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2hgghk.handylover.com/upload/files/58528242514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/delapokugal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec730f1fb1---metaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/17451779808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/41963596452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/51139509885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukientubepxinh.info/gomsu/sanpham/anh/files/sosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/wenuxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newegys.egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=myanmar+vpn+litePDF 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_off0000d45f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD45F 10300 bytes
SHA-256: e8373cf3a998a2b4990236505199d32f0cb0e91a74b0e4c9cf1d93903d83fcef
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7D 19336 bytes
SHA-256: 4b958e4dfe5353aad3f25cec4e01d300001910fdb63654081598f00329fbaa63
font_02_sfnt_off00011e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1