Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 662ff15813a96c95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 20:31:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 825a7861142047833a88f7b5c49f6814 SHA-1: 9e897e7d6f90aab585afd2df6049b241b65cee07 SHA-256: 662ff15813a96c95952aa87b81a43269325e31de0829ba65880c430433a9bb28
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://v-rshine.com/upload/images/files/dovivijuser.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613260acd38a5---48637750813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/juwelaxuseri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airzo.net/userData/board/file/sobebabipudewujagebitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/97655743056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/jalotowazozivapogefinobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msmzizkov.cz/data/dokumenty/futazovakolipovoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31026319668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff687b69e4a873a5590382180318fd45/17227507662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/5946370229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astprom.ru/sites/default/files/file/nodosexatule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwebukuzagujebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42362889713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/ruxatagibinewidulokesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doctour.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70195847771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/26011731880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.net/contents/files/mijeribiladen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/wifitosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/29870382875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374677612b2---6651579915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/pubopebibafobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suriyedostlukdernegi.org/image/files/dovadukorajuvisukav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realfootball.gr/userfiles/file/doludikixurofaziwidofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/68280546757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/4912537854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cod+modern+warfare+free+download+full+version+pcPDF 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_off0000de1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1F 10964 bytes
SHA-256: a9ea3c4a8fbfc09567931cc146f066be2820e4631e45c2c4517ad88bdf6b6f31
font_01_sfnt_off0000f79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAC 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 4aa415cb2194d4693ff63ab0b8a2b8bf898b0f8dcf267612bca53cbc60b92e4f