Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66a0339c657c2e13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 06:25:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 529c465bed0b4c13d5f5e611c6fc5a71 SHA-1: afaec117e57cdfa7206f537975fbc7a13a6f43f8 SHA-256: 66a0339c657c2e13bab5680ae30a933390ef1d7b4492e9b621ef16b2c3deda24
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading a payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a download button lure further supports this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee961d64d96ae01a218a1a8c50b1a27b/85431999625.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e52798b2fc---kusebesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05bb8374c7fb6d24e5fa886e99224a30/loxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/69948456656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/9240508890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/5852451171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c39d4eabf4---dakipojejavimefijolozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/27735642266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/73679433524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/majokofipafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c71d6d71fd---31562482879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/xojirorobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df82fa6c32a1183adfcfe0d39617f36/fekimanojedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54b77e0f96c55ba1c7f0274a51cdae5f/65612296527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents//files/6998934265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/929ee38ac796d6efe50a0d1ae083dbc9/99631238055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a39eccb8f25f2fba4cea89d40db5aa74/xudejijorezizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=download+dumpper+and+jumpstart+2019PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79A 5752 bytes
SHA-256: 9e590783bd55d2f9bcedb0620b05ac8a244079ab8b9cd0ac52b89962ee72140d
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB36 11864 bytes
SHA-256: d19386dd86d7d862304b5414d2c14921679ab03e462b82cf382aba3cba4f32f6