Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c66abe63388c858d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:38:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a9f8bc0425a6c4dfe5472813ba45d60a SHA-1: 36016ed5ec16500ef252df3adf052890269dfa89 SHA-256: c66abe63388c858d96be5136d439941bad95213369de93ad6a745aeec0bc86f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware delivery vector.

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hp+compaq+8100+elite+small+form+factor+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d3c533bfb---kazepatawesewudimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/timidorojaropudoxeraxepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eea778a7a74bd444f70c13b575fc174/96273332992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/339jv7r2cdukm78cmrd81nmfqs/magopedorodudajukopodefex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6af814ee39f842ad5d55e06c21b49373/jadevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/32474926722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/tilonuxufuwexufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adec672bf8e9c2a1a34f9638db24c936/webejuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finpacecuador.com/userfiles/file/zikagarekojinenavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e83347878---63046765609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8cc784b6f---72917637105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d215c2bf4---83149658043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c6ab16f22---51088654457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/28500354071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/91971572466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bptramptour.pl/files/file/17942130604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0effd96ee---dezedatozudulivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/13368589688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dream-mebel.com/pic/file/52611669196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/25093156803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/57332287111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d296bd08689---33319640586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607053636a66e---jirujofijitutabuxatebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c33ded2b47b---bowijibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d01b3900a3---4010895329.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_off0000e29b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE29B 18552 bytes
SHA-256: 10e24e5b0c33eea86223631c5b4240fb2ed2329e490cf66c0be781d683d5e1eb
font_01_sfnt_off000112f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B07 11260 bytes
SHA-256: d7285d4fb14ac1dd96104c272919cce81f1a57fb2ff846aae0afe4177b37aaa8