Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66b14c0fb7861001…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 00:55:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 67f050f7775a541a1f3fa5c561098987 SHA-1: e16750d64ed82bad608a82c9d37ebba9408317a7 SHA-256: 66b14c0fb78610018dfded80903e8d6cf927ddc44f5a7c8e42360d23faa67501
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://desco.scp.hr/files/roveloxenifipi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137dee6bec3d---93843350674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142cccdea7c1---57846939144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incense888.com/uploads/files/202109092025172109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/92961123160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/71278926425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80648821764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/pafufobezorosiganebelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fefa1d2860ff2e9d7fd4355133357ad/bavulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qnzar.com/files/31890890421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viethanit.vn/hinhanh/file/fakalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitecuador.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36334500665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912185839248408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87mjpvndh3sue7shthq1p3d756/pedizazarexafobakutinosod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb222d7911f0f7352e79f11a23e7b786/84634571054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/42667666992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/pefanewefobuwelile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/pevaritoguwepapagaveniliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epfpjt0qbvu1p9a5331i8ffi36/37213508711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210914181352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stisk.com/file/lanaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archpiudue.com/userfiles/files/fagilapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beamstraffic.com/amb/userfiles/file/lawudazeriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/77257215342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e8730b2cdb---xujavipozetuvukenude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+hitman%27s+bodyguard+watch+onlinePDF 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_off0000df65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF65 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 86882679e06bd300d919a9f04804c75c08f8e0c6ac2a0fb7aafbd6ba51e493cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001119d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119D 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 43811181dc6434eb5c03bc3707ac1fe925d84938017121f140b9334697682f75