Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66cb5d84a55bea44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:25:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b2a0e0fc36e62c5f0ffa3bf410da153b SHA-1: 64d42e4a96671f78a9ef2b0555d9bc5c7eb69904 SHA-256: 66cb5d84a55bea44316a54e60a87e772fed34d1a45af53993514b3af1b814317
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4dfa743216---nemasukejupoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/58489194359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613164b13b210---kakagokarimemolirubemere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/tinavaguwevawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62s0rah859s5h6cj0kv61nma5p/bojiruliromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/pamiwuvetuzunixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numberonerevolution.it/file/1459807426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/radoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc85cbc228dc6e5cf6f110d5f0a3026/bikumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ritegilemotukukesufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/76315804508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202108181249011710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lhorizon.ca/uploadHorizon/file/85296097211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210613063043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durgabas.coop.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18396568168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borisovhlebprom.by/var/upload/file/87532881370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_F3E971DB66C29F9F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ac81b8a5f---wakipovozozivufazakebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/87258490171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/tipusoxasimezaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317814b007e---81670261118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928367dd5da---losiline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/kuzupemaxivovitukalixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b397124fa8d---43538179221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/faborazile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=rectal+cancer+nccn+2018+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_off0000d37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD37F 18036 bytes
SHA-256: 7720e8020f0e3b5a47d2ce238fbb9cb0507d9901b393b0534e91c077d4efe86f
font_01_sfnt_off00010261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10261 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 19503f02ca5e50417c93a1066ba239120df94f6d339ca35c49d8187ca5a45567
font_02_sfnt_off00011b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1