Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b66f56121a0a3f26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:48:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ce3b54484d71c71fc5ac71d64f38f975 SHA-1: 098f44d5a7a80538400a06feb0b4c590035f18ed SHA-256: b66f56121a0a3f2607aebffc70e16947cb5a583b3bbc304fffa7f9d4a5438aef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination of the malicious content. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and links indicates a broad distribution effort, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+first+month+of+autumn PDF link annotation
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c60cd2787---mideva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a9liuvcrivja1esvihffns1d8/54923136054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2adc5d8775---99399038257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da84ccf428---73437004693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d608fd5c909---43638404009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e307ff72---diwukidajejosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/93880338871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/60093766185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/87613743208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfc185eb6c47919dedef451b390d958f/65541723744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/sudoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideas4mypool.com/userfiles/file/xirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/3363696211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/xunirukoxevuliganatuxuzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083912716eaf---42187936544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbg25sl0747dvtni2thm1r3hm9/xapulilixamisafixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c042f1ea994---duwuwiwupijoruseribedadub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/62342222663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fa7080aac---zuxotipulebogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c38c42b90---68327229683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fufvsk1ke57b5k7n8kqik49vu7/58746348616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/64461372950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/nurotinotuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/xolegezutexenotunemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfuhrmvmq6l7j6n00c5316rq54/ziwudeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f299a7818a4a7c84ea99f446c58318de/vajuwulalejiwi.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_off0000fdf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF1 17680 bytes
SHA-256: d1d1691f75525b4819e28ae69a2008190a32e1d2e9b162f7fa771521e9a21c73
font_01_sfnt_off00012c55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C55 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 4c7a03aaa143962428c5ee1d89b935f51c1f1539140a3808f8369c8ad8ebd454
font_02_sfnt_off00014411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14411 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1