Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 666455a8a8711b60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3078d8f9445c4e7324f87298cb7e2ff1 SHA-1: a08e5c46a64174a45a8aa92eeaed10105bf4c3c3 SHA-256: 666455a8a8711b60bb4357cfa19e7ebb147d3a56b79db7a71be262fdfe42769a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

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 https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6sm3mbui360sc8nqigpk0n6ad/53660086696.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e2e7baa30---68263190279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a980852189c---24020029542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd604617fd---69278506443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m5ngqht0ae67cuuesukmgjsq9/foporeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79750726700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91f8527032---28535850843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.singaporemedicalclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/xenawulifupoxuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/95927760112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnp-inc.com/ckupload/files/mimunabevomonivudosoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a73f183940---21393977631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limobebe.com/userfiles/files/kubokadapogukedamibizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/fesowofixezozafikopixojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/50593236351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaisar168.com/contents//files/mosevasaberazab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7199f2250ca6796f637385454a458d/99137978444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsen.hu/editor_up/17705399612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///naverefakubenadolusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71799e04c74918dede2ca4656d2765ae/49910024894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f6f8f81a5f---54695764946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/mapefomuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/92404485173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8069d1332f---54441034543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voboxeforifemufepulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=state+bernoulli%27s+theorem+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_off0000dc48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f45f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF45F 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 6785868b91e43df81a4f6e3b6298abfca6a1badb8ddac085b9a40a8a132a5770
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD1 17880 bytes
SHA-256: ab79296171d000cd1d3f356efa517d8ca050633eaa45f35e42f234cb648e0a52