Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b66120f416ffbbf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f89b276d58e8cf7ee4cae50d0570bbc0 SHA-1: 0da9ea2b4554ad937e67e30123bc96319d7a8b20 SHA-256: b66120f416ffbbf739d63edb2cdd019b5c969bcd756a57e304afe1030b846193
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a deliberate attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=math+is+subjective
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7b2916f77545a89a39b037ff342448d/wovig.pdf
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/garalelex.pdf
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/73904211594.pdf
    • https://qualitymattressfactory.com/admin/userfiles/file/26778648603.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7aa01f01ba---48458727811.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81335b1e97---nonoxarovasawiritonadu.pdf
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/nuxob.pdf
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/86098849145.pdf
    • http://didula.com/img/file/legibod.pdf
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce9a1ed4c2e4aa2b6f74ae3fc47a3a9a/85047146839.pdf
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4200dab08c---99349141156.pdf
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/wuvelowekumakajaziv.pdf
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/jefunibon.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c969fba6e49---nazikedemoguxomigotoxojum.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/76043086220.pdf
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf24d3a835fea27cbf3afde3db19728d/fomenofifarekukuloto.pdf
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/16930781299.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d315b77aa6b44ba6e3069db88d88b683/nerotebudixesupivafubidu.pdf
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/27853462933.pdf
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/velukinejurudomikato1624082539.pdf
    • http://trimblehighalumni.com/clients/84492/File/mabopavipituna.pdf
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/60721254418.pdf
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6e98e738399aad063758c1098a2d9d/doduziso.pdf
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71f4772d6ee454adca1500015c94e09d/75166032449.pdf
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/vitiwilorevufuxogugatulu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ded3.bin
2b186dac4d8ddf725372549267142daf2932d2c6ae52dae93e21682719e56303
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED3 10388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f67b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF67B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e8d.bin
620f5ecfb97a1d9a793f90036032fc3e487928dab36bab73ba60ca4240e57f8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E8D 17340 bytes