Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66a85686f1c01c35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:44:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 80e4ff92b28adac744e565d1b5d90c81 SHA-1: 4eeaa7a396d1c3597d85556d405a16b7cbe9bfe1 SHA-256: 66a85686f1c01c350f5d439329aea2c25f4cbe9b3aa89a63e3c49003f77c6e12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/95083710710.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/titewufakeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/vipusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/62778956725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bqsaqo739drvqq36ro7f5vcb1/59237909407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ccc6a128e---5373431403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d11f4b589f34f62d66d8736e70168841/nurobodoxutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nachtruhe.info/up/files/2071211409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/18118986560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtcrnd3t0cdupr5irs23hkgi85/sotetigavakupijuzaretad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607625b776067---xobapalagefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/64921706468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/024f45023127d25a2065323102bb0b2f/82594022293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210704_185831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/pokejikunufonono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adaf4d94232---24439720783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c50bad03d2---lirufufatolozuxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/jorafujudivazudubilux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8034372fe---18622987406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/64045037407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a47755c84---buvage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a86274ae0f2c276019eab6ad6e1655eb/rivopuxatoxadekitudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddc9bfb41b6---24857106808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077094232d71---59474064148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdc954a77b8a3d124fb4bbe2232faf90/kidotogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=heredity+and+evolution+class+10+previous+year+questionsPDF 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_off00010077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10077 17092 bytes
SHA-256: fc7d80c88da5b21c19bf3742a14d9cce260c6a8e4a5d1027dfbe26cfae5eeb1a
font_01_sfnt_off00012d34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001454b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1454B 11096 bytes
SHA-256: d6915d4c39032e0fdaa35ef4ee44b816274259de92dda38219408d70178f861f