Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 661569ed21edd1f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-08-30 03:25:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 75bc3553db4c11d4a8f040e04778e3f6 SHA-1: 38d3e50d3a1949fd949a235e25b8dc3da8c462a1 SHA-256: 661569ed21edd1f9c9162165609cff2fd641bcbb3204c737d3b295e6d79fcfb8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a distribution network. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware delivery scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021072409005873499.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a098eaa4df5---gosamiteduxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/budunurofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210809034924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c943acd9134f769cbb3d758a98d5e14/rumipepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609558b98e6eb---84923206801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/kezebitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/34112627561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritadas.in/userfiles/file/66969272882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f8d8d12a8---39671829414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a1898209d---vokusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f499jkgmtra72lmlcu4kiqu33f/risivakata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/zuvizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/28743212975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/sufaxizobozipodekolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faithartists.com/clients/877397/File/kesefilodozanewabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0231d405bb---zebukulikasimeziropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/bamixipajirilukenopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/dibuzotudusujudusaziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94f8dbb9f832d6d67843947a0c671e5d/59438735817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/wizamokonavidarixetudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/nilubedisinusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/583163886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflchw.com/upload/file/tipelojejivarosupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aahsclassof1978.com/clients/b/b6/b6117739535924054831d33ecd54b00a/File/50373018585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonsaxtonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6d0431f970e0833b0867c311dafb132/File/12391293877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=zone+of+the+enders+the+2nd+runner+isoPDF 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_off0000d219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD219 19000 bytes
SHA-256: 3f000479810e2452c7b2db0068c0bbb90dd653d74a91bd9558d526539aede174
font_01_sfnt_off00010318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10318 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B2F 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 884ca79b3f4c46c1252f778357db33091075fa13a063989866bebe1152a7fe02