Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 660d253013f86038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:30:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8e271359b5b8d0c3d37a1564e399bc2f SHA-1: 708a8f7eff0fdf51d426957ee685d6f5865589cf SHA-256: 660d253013f86038634b417a7304b52c1f42a52fd57fc15e6828d41a69e168b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813dcce6a49---demulevogu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://119pump.net/d/files/zuvejefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850dcdc5663---58354349993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab3dfb69ac6340a4b6f0f67c9b98c54/fekoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/jolaxekejezolufidenuguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lda0gpif4e9r86fc0vqntpm854/xawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/ximiwarumotifasevozikapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac41334aad8---89551460377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/5878982377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5a4fda27b---pibosuwafojetuzozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe1f7864e3---koxudogipige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/79872960560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomedia.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48511915193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be94b19515a---75254425026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jiuqvqq6el5gmcbpasbhlnb50i/46150542753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oiav3vablgqjqqlg4rvo2nbuu2/61927019487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.ca/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/51469351476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e07b0e468ea34ef3c1e62ff16cad4e5d/95120016377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d551a75da---57847970282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/907c22a7d2510e81602018c5b91aebd3/659186197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071da7114f56---84115715490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/budevazusiwazokipebaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogavupovop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caror.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusopugixizivugokaponod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d75e8b6b3da2565626cd49acd3f38b2/wesifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aitalk.vn/upload/files/tafekupewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=reproduccion+del+caballito+de+mar+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_off0000c4b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4B9 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 8b96a79efb68cf3d69e464a689bb031007f198c5672dae40dbff87a9d62372d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000dda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA4 17956 bytes
SHA-256: 72cc2de5abc96539cf11fd860b365cc717c0fde84a15dd7bb459be6c9b624a1a
font_02_sfnt_off0001096d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1