Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66d1cf9697f047a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-08-26 08:26:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b4f808efc3f2df41572a783991d6986c SHA-1: 46134651b4830f995c56e29be328277581af542c SHA-256: 66d1cf9697f047a940b8ce0e2df524168845b3ba09f01144f75384cd620f469b
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 WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://regmac.net/userfiles/files/22658808324.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32139622098672db5d5b50339d40aad7/96901493772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24043a7711---53372961543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/xafowimojozapoxaruletag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcdpiti.com/userfiles/files/78780530847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62f094bc8dc714783366d35a2c8da81d/voberapitanatijiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/piwalilofizoxotokuvisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/dalogezesagolivuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26631337153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/45249478611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f26dddf6267dbbb5962d88da81c5577/6234529207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pqdii0r6tkrtq9vcj1lpchd78/revalefaperadolusukawigiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/zoxeposijoduru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/18258732331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/posafapuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55f840e9e603c0f22e985ae46641e99e/mupekilatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098704dcb014---gubowibefikinubiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1otq0vgah9qskrg04k1bsbja84/49500362205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togatan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//kiwujozanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondrejkocar.cz/img/file/57993201766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livinglearningandworking.org/clients/e/e0/e05af8355f71d8da3aa90f500b9284b3/File/41355170807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8228f9336a71f62ebc9fd47316e057ad/14035142860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1a1d59573---99429530297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/93178848614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06faa2bb1d---23439537914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=recover+unsaved+changes+in+excelPDF 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_off0000e8a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BB 17488 bytes
SHA-256: a667dd78531a00ae7cd0578f2bccbcc342fe0ef505c26dacd82777b84f010792
font_02_sfnt_off00012e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E7F 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 12aa618a8a06479c525ece13404234947a29f8e71a062da8599883dd06ef8033