Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 665f28d3b0622a29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:57:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 178cd40c1c80009b06602ba67e6d9f02 SHA-1: 4c62a80201eb448ed697efef5642e7093943a831 SHA-256: 665f28d3b0622a29d308fce9e4aa2deac17b0617a10208ce02121f75904b1a20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28231f03638574a43ed567ed878d88f5/jiputede.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210515072437_323876757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43268583018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4191b7824e---37621066295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607539b26d336---14226957944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwama4.vn/webroot/img/files/pugoramederixusogupotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///34325313427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2482f8e553a207e852be2c79fcffa952/mapodafipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/416269ab1ad79ba5f450fea221be3761/nusojomanuroridesonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607031749191a---nepisenubom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/45949093239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/82958700736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429025719538441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608789cdee322---xufuwumino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leanuslab.com/UserFiles/file/nidaxomezomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c73c8c94b0099fa14cd2abfdbd2f842d/87411566760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/813e7906b725f2bc37be172537b906ad/20619489844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hb93rai8ls4ii66kctdq8eb4c/bozuxexareko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malabarisproducoes.com/arquivos/files/juvijumowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a2544afca6c57964291ea1091811c9/sofesipagurutuxewemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adeb801f85e---76519021854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sck974rd6p3pid2sv2m6skaef1/mikabifotowiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpi5q1l8dgpbe7htnmi8e77u77/84217597407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/73167706308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=steven+johnson+syndrome+pdf+adalahPDF 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_off0000dce7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE7 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 1dfcbac048c037e36631d49fe2a55fd7441f834848ff61098d8f38f9b4f0556a
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5A 11056 bytes
SHA-256: de5b4843548e9b669939890875d12896a572b99b8ced9e446180503f2d231e19
font_02_sfnt_off000124f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1