Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66151f1077c3bfbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-06-01 17:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e87c8b2fbd778471375e95b3c78dcbbd SHA-1: 5aadfe66c90787d4626518cba272a6d3df04107d SHA-256: 66151f1077c3bfbf682521df9e8237a2fe22e6a8e768546d3ee0aa782b80b3ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or facilitate phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the PDF being identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection names imply potential for further malicious activity, such as downloading second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5fbb66944---56169287727.pdf
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fns3j33v9ch2q51kk78nd6hck6/94734516600.pdf
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/86304745961.pdf
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609436750da51---tikupar.pdf
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff66cb94d2---79579783398.pdf
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944215b0d33---seniguzezonejowazuxexejas.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd26a735b9---vusodixixivajonoripikekig.pdf
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ae7c72925a2363c26160e953abe304/48788853620.pdf
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/902cc3ce5386843ebb97bae38e44bb26/lenexipu.pdf
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78fcbca022---57164738736.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077db5d40d94---59858197880.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f22864ed65---wefikatagodule.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609176573a6ff---limudokemesadamag.pdf
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e66a83c6ee7df1baa9d9b54976804807/19464689981.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087702322b38---kudinigejevanulivogusoku.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c98e7a4762---86054745335.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=industrial+organizational+psychologist+career+path
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d619.bin
8cac87dec2625ddf35ccc96a0e90827ef23934c4df7ab6a64704fde46c857135
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD619 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e895.bin
811a3dd36037f68832977c79a7d37baf9dde22c76185845e700c2df64eafd3a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE895 10384 bytes