Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 665da05cb8480149…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 18:57:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: e6b2f495f319dd5d8395a79def47ef16 SHA-1: 55b36e5b73289704b12b1861bfd411bab2685234 SHA-256: 665da05cb8480149db284d4abf762595410fe159e1378d5ef542b7a4d886eab5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external, potentially malicious, content through a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://leo.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/wuwenemumedukivebikudum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210528_524FAFA94AFF7E79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac2b4160e9---65990029615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/wokitosubusidinawowebanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecdf40ab4d7---jijuwameridanodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8igss1aa1vv2fhbe3eidigm66/30369722265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0369e9ad75---21271769747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fefc68b50f---gakosuvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/dakodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://r2doodles.com/clients/4/4a/4a4ed909dcef54c1e3ec6a0ce1d29f2d/File/jaxoxafazeduboxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/84673202816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/683e3f2e5e1244c84a764abbbbdb80a0/44506938676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaithompson.com/userfiles/file/88245110204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/1745510405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/kabalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c71120f6c2---26252911822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bea0e3f584---levitasuvewowoxubidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5nao8cjo234shqv4le01a00pl/jelusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/zerirefaguduzajuwotijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/vidopagefonapedudilaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08a1e6a850---26080538079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/1784559267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bright+green+boogersPDF 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_off0000f381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF381 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 68e42f9fd9330832a69d22bc2577aea9c1abf03a9827ee6ab7983316bf3a0ab9
font_01_sfnt_off000120d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138EC 10372 bytes
SHA-256: b90859f324f11bb553a8cfc9cdece48e78f4c52fbf932390b76faa2dee5fc765