Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 666378cb71f0964d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:02:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b1c6dffa9a1a35a4afd946dbc4eba53f SHA-1: b1534c71d8debb1c9cce52e7e6ef4be864fe9e57 SHA-256: 666378cb71f0964d5baf3649d9f37feec8ec3514818adc3e1ec5ec4ea982d6e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised or disposable hosting supports this assessment.

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://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd8e95b35ec03c943a7bffd50621e28c/tagatip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/90834310639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07cebc6ed03050dd81e756bb9ddd23d0/88848041070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/38329354537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazitopejikuzijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607774d5b074f---vadoxiraromane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f0fc3b968---67817658774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99614106c7---28159244813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8013ea9535---54875407194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bd85634c47acd43ae8ae42167b09ff/nolekimigefibojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/67272927822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0d35f521770b54caf50bb7e1293ab8b/46475727635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15869c60809103e1564e52b1427913d2/binibokupajedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/tofota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.upperhousedev7.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tibavanezuwofodisawalun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f754d2f6663c809b60500c458c3bb909/dipumipupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/zosupuvuropezosabegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/274a00202811a0b1b016dac7e107f949/luwataregoloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eucenje.ess.hr/media/files/sumisarizazixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heritagecarletonplace.com/clients/c/c2/c23aa4fb54f25340752d20cfcff880b2/File/66729324700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/38778874027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/699bfc81250d2abbd1f411145b81bccb/52488784819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/balorasuxogunoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/9202783755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=challenges+of+project+management+in+public+sector+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_off0000d96d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96D 17132 bytes
SHA-256: cf22f4af39af7eae5792c92b65f109f184d460fa2a239722cdbb5858afc243ce
font_01_sfnt_off00010585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10585 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9C 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 007356412198bc9b7c56de5c7d11927ecf0447d68b2d57a7b8226dd054230b9c