Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 666d973eb1d00bf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:13:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f4173f9afe63f1b2b03ce068233e17f1 SHA-1: 9d98954aa29e77dc9bd3fb2791d5157037a5a998 SHA-256: 666d973eb1d00bf53977a4cbc192736d58458cfc1d26491cd8fc76c6c344958c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, and one specific URL, 'https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=salesforce+platform+developer+i+certification+guide+pdf', which is likely a phishing lure. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though obfuscated, suggests an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect the user, aligning with common phishing and malware delivery techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=salesforce+platform+developer+i+certification+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1e0f993da9ccb997b621d5a52cd8b42/7470673689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/31170016369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apronorte.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087214185ce1---63508850857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbc-bezorgdiensten.nl/upload/74683731030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae7a827ad61b775d16f448b556aa62f2/93859832925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/72533947502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44577b66dc---17064305417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibunajcc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bukedafani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denkobarbell.com/_upload/files/tapisukisape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce88e5d37dd893ab833f055d971bcc2d/fuwudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f93355c11c---50803771028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lemevowibewodoxufifera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/tanozuwodogazijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe4f1525dd---rojulirowegituvoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12e672d3484da3f012281f500602e2fc/ruzefokejilumogerijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee36cdbac338fdcf426f67d36dcbb3c/watodegavulozeganesuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4q33rbikhlm93i9a8kg51034kp/junus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/wupafijisamakuzijubexulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/kasenikepebizokegeganixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4279119118---kodoxukujimusolebodorovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ceea1ceac---33037674366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/32976618144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superazs.ru/images/news/file/82018608116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d5b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B4 17668 bytes
SHA-256: 8dbd844f566cd04c4945a67abe70b3b63a7a77f2aafb627e7cd4c62ab24ecbae
font_01_sfnt_off00010385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10385 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 9e7399033092470e041405bbff4be436e22e8fc0614cab8db978f17f0b1d56b6
font_02_sfnt_off00011d8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1