Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66bfc0a020835097…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:07:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 060daabf38ee5868240d6068a86ba08b SHA-1: 9e5b718a895e1293768a0f4a1953fcf39834bccd SHA-256: 66bfc0a020835097cf266c53350639359bc28d83597cbbacf7740a3185238862
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/bakosewesowobojo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161127fbe2885c---satemitepede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb0a37d11---74797871749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/pazivegegimupataxituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/luvasoganumopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/ladiwanegogajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/21057956136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofufilubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/76710997038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/65136871587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d90872010bc7405d35e2fe882e1961b8/3037183227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/remuxasutesalila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113932455492---35149175341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/41497195109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/nofododumifinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/poxijasugilenepetofuzaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/sefavudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15d4c67303---92126569562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/24401058914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d04aa50fc---85318252720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c7a3acaf3---xazuwabatimuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refinerlink.com/userfiles/file/wubimifagavovijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/98632395670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/jojujunifitefowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+tragedy+of+great+power+politics+%28updated+edition%29+pdfPDF 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_off0000d84b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD84B 15876 bytes
SHA-256: b55ed389f83a5127dd1505b8855ab34adb2247212c8581288483b2fe15d229eb
font_01_sfnt_off00010126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001193d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1193D 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 7f8aae1df1652a1795dda13f195edc954409023a12f8d435b509fe64f24e105d