Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66a8cc5ad4cc1183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-17 21:43:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 6afbd6d0b8b4a0aaab3506446b5682ea SHA-1: 1c801f36e0e5ac59f4435aa2acbae1f6049edb3d SHA-256: 66a8cc5ad4cc1183f3ac843cad996f50309c6e8a1d398b56c3955fe01b125c90
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 0.9996

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hill+climb+race+unlimited+money PDF link annotation
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f292cf242d8f653883d30c3f133bba6e/tasebadozoxejigikapanaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b4633c3cd---48979525487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fc1166449---45418682801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4928634a09012d10556c4a752adc1cd0/92329174568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983d9b9aace---3626987891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ba17c7ea1---sabokosometuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/mesewidurevefemoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f0d35d062ba63616522a02bf4ed0c43/41272171133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd43a3d4417bc96b6ed763acf0302fa7/91004604667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4814650806---7773276997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8e5af0ca6---18761432482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghoclnt6ji5bik1jsa24hbr4bf/55560795308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c771986abb---52201741513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/gibogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kancelaria-perfect.pl/app/webroot/media/files/kijutarifaliwavudusasixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v31ns5s1dsd8utfade3o2ha7ib/peranejorigix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/jonijonodeteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1A 5112 bytes
SHA-256: 7ddc70e4b19a978a8383b799398b99d0129439f83f111553c53cb5ea7fd88752
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05C 2984 bytes
SHA-256: 59b52cf8bfd3a57802fbacdf1b1d705d7d9780f3fbc3923176f59e8da5ba95f0
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCBA 14984 bytes
SHA-256: 2f2e00137b7f5aa9eafa58e3d67ff963e80d893778b6d83f12ad65eccf5327f0
font_03_sfnt_off00012bec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BEC 16076 bytes
SHA-256: c26df5a654703d82c4b49e3d99d7624c72720c83e2144c41d2616ef18af3c653