Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b966e9ff42156e99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-15 15:04:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f2dfa3d13922702dae0206eb9e3b9734 SHA-1: dc668ee4f6b990b4ce78eeec2f329d318cc1dd77 SHA-256: b966e9ff42156e999a5f9b548bc54897986020374e9094a6c0a166ba947c8751
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised WordPress upload directories. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11361893847.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/48180684563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f1f8d1be4---gemepunuwuvojulizejozik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16qmml8q3qgn71c9dr6jlfanpn/49098646636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9593cd283dcc50a7fc5ff3b1e9e24e78/dejebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raisemoneyonline.org/clients/6/69/691275cf9a36cab982b2498ebdc715be/File/98078782862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb093771105---fukonaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947db45084e---nelurarelasarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dl8eh6pteq9eev9qjodepie8k0/2127605256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815b1942b8a---raxobulis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuvujorenelawanodemamus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/55954245949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e33287aaefa---nesegizatifaworurokewaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210529112128537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/56841667820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/864ccdfefcf31c1489897816a1105ba0/lepidekuroleso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc2ee09f966a83287f652d6580401550/61117674467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/87073596142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01860310ec9abc75d2886b519e8277a6/rudavopigafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928c4c9da14---48219068444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/30129011900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/68338296838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa11b82ab7---pividugojolijetuzur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/76448926596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37b8ce7e684b5ecc56a8d092f90263b/nerokadozufaweleweso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=seeing+gray+spotsPDF 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_off00010ad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000122e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E9 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 6acd4c45d4e9ae67ae2d239e9065edebd4e37183b18583459b77e6a9b96870be
font_02_sfnt_off00014e99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E99 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 6316147bcc9d23c58dc5331ccc21d458d06a5801867d906c0534ec9872b2e482