Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b66b4a278a90658f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-11 05:03:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c7f93d45bfa2a46fc74ff99d5a589458 SHA-1: 06ea75fb26ea2291d3bb0050e47ef921fcd1a53d SHA-256: b66b4a278a90658f8d6181bce0ebd242621c30d3a8dfd21355711329ef8c1e4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable domains and compromised WordPress uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly point to a malicious link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/92743744250.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608880bdc8d4f---migopewasesuvezuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tristar-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pemolabuwamilunotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7rfl60lm4kav91ta01v3jhqi3/71028226315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketnoikienthuc.com/upload/files/73010184022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/76924814063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/bodewikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da23992b8b---86462613572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c663a80f79---vizurunajanenuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/sadakiwisuziwuturujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082792ff3972---99578686897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/ninadasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1147ec08d---lurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161061c92ea43b---rirutadewafupogojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92167493644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab360fa93bf03392ab2f96826fde56e/1291583666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/ronudadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benjamin1908.com/clients/f/f4/f4560e3fe432b95d15e234f900dec36a/File/supiwizifesegamujosogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855d429590b---temojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c789a3a0cca---navibagibuxagulovidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608782bc93299---dilizadepokejuvosegowuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/dupidefunobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=project+timeline+google+sheets+templatePDF 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_off0000eed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED5 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 212e6f3461edd015721966d13df0bbbe46b28bf40b62efe9c5f2a18c53684933
font_01_sfnt_off000107f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F8 17136 bytes
SHA-256: dd10586417621f63ea9f842aeba9f47f6cad64f50e2ce36455a0fa68dec33187
font_02_sfnt_off0001346d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1346D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1