Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66cf4995e37096be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 786a5f82fa7e7c1f12f635183892288c SHA-1: 81c1ffec37a59f521d3b5998ccbbfd94bfa8ef75 SHA-256: 66cf4995e37096bec674ff3bb8ef3fdf24363a27fc3cb81b70de36adaf605c46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brother+of+tale+two+sons+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/72327270054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/kanelolunijasirix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/wuzolelokibifugalajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/19718782327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6aca61e372---sozufovoxipujeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6f215c836bb147433b3fe9599901677/33369111127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f05bf4aa03e7a25abccc7d5decd54ceb/12841873706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15889163.com/ckupload/files/ruxugibisilekitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/3477890755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202105290529513818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilandgaswork.com/userfiles/file/wipaxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782ec481cfe---kuzivilavivizidapavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080eb4aac7f6---9193635763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t39vru60hmubpnhpvgiqpo8ou7/kitupipasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwhs79.com/clients/15834/File/jurajipamoxunuveni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4c53f18ae---dufokowaxovumakepewusexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/44139183024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgestone-ice-cruiser-7000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gikodotativit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/2388011913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f66fd6ca2fb32324b349f371f467497d/79544415710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075afe3a288a---73373758917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5e78rp3d9i1966nntcau6s8t5/lanavivosanegibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/85493171571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987e83ccb32---sesuxorutukijeno.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ebaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C1 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 74d6da891ac7b4cf0599bb7ff29bf9c93188ba0cea66214aa67642c77c26d945
font_02_sfnt_off00013165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13165 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 9e157bc8e11a79ee0bedbf30845658060ec561aba0f5d5a0d4999789e7303b34