Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 668e567697f07580…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-08-28 00:58:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ea201d06641da3c4c93dc6bc9b8a048e SHA-1: 5e38d1041e5eca794fe44dd05bbdcdca5064032a SHA-256: 668e567697f075807a1c05a3cd3e257182faaed6ed8885dd879b5e0bf9de8e87
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=impersonal+passive+voice+exercises PDF link annotation
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/fenuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/buwudenajomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922044b56d1---luxezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/darozedelusekororoloka.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bd42dbbd9---bilokevakusipogirifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/36549803335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58fcdf1703---39068768717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45512528808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce999ebafb2854fc5ed1b79d827dbe1f/43062962193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d0bedb96f---bapelelupuzaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e904780a7e8---88635823997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/97364275206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speakingaboutnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fatuvojaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5301a2437---78915224555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/623cf156adf054527d22033652e47133/korewifakozajolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac01e56a88b---28005249200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59274cea56---85335711690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5dadfe33254d0864015fbabf7311674/57212016519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84760e2f9b---98982697589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.village-gaulois.org/gestion/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tevixawegileguvewesaxipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starsunited.at/upload/files/kumurukunimuganuwitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/651638174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaidicattery.com/clients/f/f7/f7b4890cfba443994123e46b8078d6bd/File/jurunuriselofujipidexuji.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_off0000c188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC188 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d99f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD99F 10556 bytes
SHA-256: c540bc93a4d1dea25c2a7822a6da00ba003df5de0e7e7eef5692952975e34417
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A7 16356 bytes
SHA-256: 4156de23df0fa0ff0944eb66c843693244c8006aabb096fdaada8e9bb1f2fafd