Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 660725d0eeb07077…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-28 06:18:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b26b29562586639fe7541a2580cdbed9 SHA-1: 1846ced05e11e86628dfb378a348fe3c40d1aa14 SHA-256: 660725d0eeb070773d1b234799f063a4fcc534caec2adc8b1d76a96fae2d13f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to a variety of domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to external sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+positive+word+that+starts+with+i PDF link annotation
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/komiximokefeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbhbqjtc54rvlk37st8ev5p541/78137372935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc7c313022---87937043950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://justsayhi365.com/uploads/file/gupadutudetemagorix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xagusiminasakuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/48305306342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raselapp.com/userfiles/file/40639278612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53601926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/topazedoxumowepejilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epplast.com/files/file/wotasigofadonetodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/80758415910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f22e67635fda329a2ebc584eb7f7e829/26569992652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://philly.drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/93590394006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/gumakabiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/wulutagajobajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents/files/87854343469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/45458473972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80131fe74a2598d4d18db03a8f28e19d/gotokemixotimekazovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.vn/uploads/images/files/40388595533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25561551907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ad71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD71 15428 bytes
SHA-256: 182cbaedd59bc486b0cfc4f9dbf704e8dd17405774c7ae9f99ac1428f6cf4b22
font_01_sfnt_off0000d483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD483 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9A 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 88dd768b2566cb1adfdd4d8c72c8117d33ed8c3ff0e08351cf6336f125605f7f