Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c66848c54586bd33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 22:28:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8722a5915d557d07462129821c520658 SHA-1: c76c6ae037c1aa8c8530b788955c8e3b0429171c SHA-256: c66848c54586bd3322b5aefeeb6ba2cbb675ac2889f33d019c9e88d7ad47b40b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+find+hidden+chats+on+messenger PDF link annotation
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bfa072d65---78229743135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/12570809292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b117c5da1c2---62559046814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608082c2b713d---67226748161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d20358b61---15218252773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm0nksd1pak7tkdohaph49kr14/70188655692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021051709502740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918106ccf3b67a56d306c7a2e448a858/30874221244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87c0b336fe9cddb3780ba61d084d59e7/zuretifewojekojemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/fuginetafosojufiniguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e91f770cf---31645335688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80d216a63f---towowipufenavometumam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b787eb6cb630d0188adfab20a10d7d0/tufazarukupida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/rajikofovefezavun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/kopemezivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8gj7e3mq017e10vi6clib5le5/bezonelubusofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atonoserver.com/userfiles/file/58710796654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92b3804f8c---4919914021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/xadowitofefimiraxuwuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8569946437e03eb5c81071b6a9552b85/buwidafeligulove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae9fn8noelj2d42i0f3jqdnj1/34637730924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1c996e497cbd9447ba827f0e8f0b746/12046958539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c96616cfc---vodezuwowesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c1999672a---30455937633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a51975b841fd80a28e1d428d8ffd34c/6385757985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867e452bf51---75913980942.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_off0000f60c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF60C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E23 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 360c01c2b4e810cbf36b0a8b468f163cabcd78b68a1ef8550854cd502f818229
font_02_sfnt_off00012723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12723 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 0d43141dd4e812757a4b4579e12be66268c75fd353cd1ff58d4e5cfdf1478f12