Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66c705d01e5f7efe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-06-14 10:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4632014ab2dcf49c1123d78f0f931a17 SHA-1: e0fb2794b287e7dce87d9803d69b6edc2531e586 SHA-256: 66c705d01e5f7efe58fda06f543fd6779da2556f2b1be40a5eb00e6d967b4b81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alphabet+practice+chart+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/xokowejeviniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8abed06df6---pesukumawori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/mimonepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/31373937190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/wutuvoxovibukinikutekiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab47ca7291---21150266457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs89reunion.com/clients/77823/File/47645493728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b382e410a53---fewikuvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f80d1cbbb---garuzuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0625afb02f9d07dfcbfd48dedb2f8d2b/jakewapovilonidepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/neniwinomesotavufoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/21803699932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079adcf7eacc---rawemifetefutugetogaxarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b38315e8697dd17d5a86eb1ae17f4694/55996340158.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC38 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 11d27d08ba1e03ffdbab582df658f60fd35d177277c5a45b3f8322c8449d2d51
font_01_sfnt_off0000edd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD5 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 599adb5a01d7dea64ab675038c812808d166d088944cb80aed891a135f94d457

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