Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 665fbdf25088f991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:09:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6cde4bc1c4aa7a01c67f5970141c497b SHA-1: eda1701bade7de1c4203a32bef37c78fd00ab85e SHA-256: 665fbdf25088f991c60a34186feb37ec2e32930a248430fa7a903488d83bad52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting a malicious intent to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f65fcd5801---tuwutabofa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807a196c808---93161707640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20a0173089---sabebajosokojexijusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourconn.com/userfiles/file/202108261128304191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/18596911607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/40427493686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/lelogupadonagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/nedogelutapegupozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1e9ce677a8---78583385986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/zusumafela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/37007714802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edf68d1cc59---40915028870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3542b31c78449e3c7a0a5fa31bb02ff/64648245066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/58695228395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098771ebac99---kufagozewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da12cee3506---pibezakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/77153098521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/81810282374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/safepevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/mopenavolumepolezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divodizain.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33257066815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/kibojetopusaridevabetepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608cef3d1a85f---rebikado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/87070745250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=international+environmental+problems+pdfPDF 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_off0000de40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE40 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 4993ffd461d1e3e2b43fc79e0a628db6c1aee303063b2449c39096ed7e3b0e29
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6ED 16352 bytes
SHA-256: c550b6c62f185ee2a412de26b757bd712b13a774fad394d61aa274031f613b69
font_02_sfnt_off0001214c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1