Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 666f404bd60c1414…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ef26856b6bd1404af5b0880d066b0f9c SHA-1: b2b859490652d8b80cef947f29fc5864b9ad0586 SHA-256: 666f404bd60c141476ea9afe574030f1e9f67e4129f10ab714a98b79a26b76f0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/buxowe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210527_214332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67bfe7a356---naxusozutivatoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efnahkndj50jt5nigfoe0s6v6c/zitabekelakanubatitasuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38fda30360f42862b803c63d86995955/razewupugupitumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/lasutisurugidofipavet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/8360034513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/tozoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/95034337428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8388c99ecc5fd67ccd047ed57af0914/wupujirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventpro-kontraktorpameran.com/uploaded/files/xoruredawoboruzuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/sunafupikidekumegonoxiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dilimkebab.com/userfiles/file/tepafivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6041150b8a9e22f4e2a30f1520958629/33579078832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/12917854281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81806b089218d044366eea8441a2f9ea/28373364834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qqe6nncvgro48eotjkj492r94/potut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/30611070946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08174fcb772f3120eb41c981d9fccbaa/4248587290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45187138937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/nogagipevewazuriwakezomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86407352742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da684ab2da---23565035311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/4459088216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mathematical+modeling+stefan+heinz+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_off0000f22f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22F 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 6e36991c69135c0e4dd4d879d23a642bec54f9822edc3bd31b7c0392d8fb04a0
font_01_sfnt_off00010b75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B75 18300 bytes
SHA-256: 0100273ea9b85e4c750024d0dbfaffe0c190d4d8568cd4736e80a34209f2ad50
font_02_sfnt_off00013b96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1