Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 664538b20c5b03e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-08-19 11:11:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: df4950232b367028e75e7d906d6b69f6 SHA-1: 635c4ca619829a7991388f906f5b9d4f3e5bb7fa SHA-256: 664538b20c5b03e101a198ce30cdf30f3b6bd2c2243c2765b90412e6d7d6f708
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3a4ba2b8fa714bec41319a355a426c5/jeboroxebazudixitop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ototavandosemesi.com/resimler/file/16975779648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.com/upload/files/6827676988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897b1171bc0---gawabarisunikutiroweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0606789001624226085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alixdemassy.fr/userfiles/file/wiwoteba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f18c18c0f0---24921242615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa346329d2---21963858815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taksis.lv/taksis/userfiles/file/dosojenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcn21r19vo934jat68tn3tnic1/31439399230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/kawubekizaxajazezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlanda.hu/user/file/susaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119387caadf0---ruwebefimajofazedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b45743fc4---wubigak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/xugujojije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/jegunilinuzomoxapolerob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161042c94aaaba---duxifimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52a3e48e7f2d603b5398965398a5044c/37878555464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116433b04b29---28717739186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610571ee9045b---39728472101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758645a1fc5---bowozosetinasixavijebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d7ea01008---69929422991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/19585992640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3irlhjadjim6k3s4fnigusnd4/89846849292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83p4v4ta4eec1qge2nbuiq6065/44774362773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+inverse+variation+in+a+tablePDF 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_off0000fe6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6C 10628 bytes
SHA-256: f590ce0cdeaa14bbeeadf6c15f41de4090404002186f0ae29aa370fb6e7d16c8
font_01_sfnt_off000116d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D8 16292 bytes
SHA-256: 2a44a13b854131efa0d23413fd8d8ffdbdcd36a63785b80cefc2810590356aea
font_02_sfnt_off0001412a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1412A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1