Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66705b8faee60efa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 03:51:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ece2fd4d61db225c4d46bcfc936af1a8 SHA-1: bd9bc0ecfb222b8ceb56e539476bde5a8f0dfab2 SHA-256: 66705b8faee60efa76eb0914b8ea0e9ba5463bea2158f978eddb21ae2ce80df3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly indicate that the PDF's primary function is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://teerosy.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/87956458488.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a19e7e6507---77741889233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/263bc6fea1293afe1aa7ad25e962da98/rurufumekibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbjht3maq7s532gndn19ssr09u/85615580978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/gebowirolazapiluzapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b92a96fa85d254d168266d4e14b3b8c/danuzejomuvusot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/89336685155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/92510724455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379d89de8dd8ce5b02971ba331ac4224/jesufozopikutamabagubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860d73aeda5---kinar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/67791214435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e31d4a76b44---38662297916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30141091817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/fakatipiwerifosalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd12f8a219d---81298052921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4220fbabea18c5ca068ee708d11abdbc/fasifedesamorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os2h3ui6b35j6o5njri1gn5sn2/47488692322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/4095212116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/xusagitejofibopisajabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5132175dd---65113951313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210628031652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/disagavibopejebumedesera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.es/d/files/bepugabofofatebisafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/72507155078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=governor+of+poker+3+hackedPDF 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_off0000c1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1F4 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 45b333721fa519254c23a6b28cee70ceb6880f209b1132855c0fbb45d5c5b5e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000da6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA6D 16492 bytes
SHA-256: 645b7f6aa6bc542123ac2b1c07af11754f190968e37e8b2bb43ae95a6caf0c02
font_02_sfnt_off0001054f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1