Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66bd1eabdf182d1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-10-02 21:45:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: fa337b9f447e74268e5816f7e045df62 SHA-1: c9471b7fce0de5b86108c4afc853d2db2677db73 SHA-256: 66bd1eabdf182d1ee9303a24146db1af7c3616dc2349c8085eb5a2aaa9e79c04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jozuwonenebegujovimugejin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed583c857d13feb87e6f7cd745493ae2/kesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cc47f1a203ef356883dc18e89b204a3/dogedixegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/pozevoduvewesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38077173830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmrcstvm.com/userfiles/file/xabujajirotebajavimukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-moto.cz/data/dokumenty/9465395736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/89563980830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infracsap.hu/files/file/53791936371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accutindustry.com/Upload/files/20210924180250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/rajanopererelubadanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/gajomurepero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizuho-co.net/file/ck/files/64878702691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobweb.janci.net/upload/files/282205680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtaisay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gumafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5409d1ed039ac7bdc4166bbe5f85be5b/zerebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51090746876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/sevito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutupoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9t7rvsd28vti3557m3lriqrl7/3927420841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-10-1/20211001202706944086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d548f60d784c297dad466aaa1420db83/wejegegigewudixedonixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415ac170a8e---64734245591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/59692070995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/fozazeviradebuzujuririf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=gallbladder+and+ductsPDF 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_off0000b123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB123 15288 bytes
SHA-256: 3abab13448eeafe5bcd5e934e6dcc9db7bb0684768697e9a00ccad630d85ec15
font_01_sfnt_off0000d825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD825 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 04f3b59dea814393b7af0f654c2809c16255057e6bf516f978d8a1070325d157
font_02_sfnt_off0000eff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1