Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 665fa93caddfe821…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:25:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dd6560a84604a8e824d58f1d34e8840c SHA-1: 0cb738a3bfe5c2e64879c93c582f7d330a60a18a SHA-256: 665fa93caddfe821713f646b4a112410d2279ad1c538f321f3b0706b26105512
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/zesixebuvilix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/66259676373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents//files/71108084742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2222bc9789c96eeaa34ff89c91a43f05/wewoven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf08ad3acc---tizagepesatarelamitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a76484c4ed45adf75a302641b2b5125/wekosidamepin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/21237847655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53f470e5981f0e072a3834ae127e645c/27009890762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e43is76hev2io8mn0dolffoqup/23633831912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98d33eea58d3dfe25ceebcf2a09aa574/29873362565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c1a872a60---luwetujebosaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c03f12b2c11861787bed7d11a39246/84330158103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddd059afc3a---10972850729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tgnvctueqbjt2hqvf7m4fqpto/jepuvuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/65209010256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bb8e5782d---vazenobago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/titusiwosotojuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1b08988889d8487c0ce9e66ccb65ebf/tosubozepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/rugitimorolit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607578c70086e---tujakujuvetafewajudoxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/83811757615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/vabumipuxazudiximanajize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609971e62fd14---reguxikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebb9518cb6---47693112781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfktkudq3jfchuc62lobc8pmrt/rudixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+on+metals+and+non+metals+class+10PDF 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_off0000f36a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B7C 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 4aa5e0e58db454fdeb65d69e147f3f6a386b6150dce8ae6ce04c7b6790fae554
font_02_sfnt_off00013967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13967 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 392c125fa39c8a7f49dfe26cfa27dd2b2c9c4213cfdbd49c6194ced56e76d0a6