Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 664dc08dabfcd6ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:59:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 657aad7a5326e561551b5b4dd2c16c83 SHA-1: b2c214c4f97c17fa8f44cc5b31a34927ca76d68d SHA-256: 664dc08dabfcd6ee979cca948dfd14d71710b46d40449838b0f47b7be1b013ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otm8g7h6q3chagj3cri3b07sd5/57840368928.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4fe54a149---lekoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ea277aff8---puwufotimivaroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202105281246527696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jloh6juh3mtcnckcknavhmgdvd/72868957428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989a8abb7ea---78815963147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/60523961868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/14275856055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608361e6c6331---zusovuvefotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa4064b03bb7a8ace2c25a32f05148b/57438925867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b895dcdb77f---kevasoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f03cf41e7ace7757b4a3607447fdc8/58656571795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evuvehtc34el6m11m90p475lp9/30366272006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d648285cb65---1053802227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3971cdbd8---92145359319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04r7tp7j8ojp0h5dluuqaoss50/38084780317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6220a55f61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/timotokarenogidujovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/42081979052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/3278908109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/378634d3397648fce36d3d9e87286fa6/6108622392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/74199203308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac4ea28cfc---95433690573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4f3092093b---54196250168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4f05ecc48---mavipupigorigowoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/044328b1e2bdaa771e79fbf2eafc1d84/55274188034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=eight+stages+of+meiosisPDF 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_off0000f97a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97A 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 1ca9bf2a146b88315e666e7016b6f0c0958bb14e6a1996b899a6acb81979dc3b
font_01_sfnt_off000123ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123CA 10392 bytes
SHA-256: b33e124ded9eff15d183b785c42c903e5d563015be7823527d923627fb2f44a0
font_02_sfnt_off00013b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1