Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c66c9627a83199ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:38:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 525fb717a6a74de6b988553062c8326e SHA-1: 244a816036c3a6fa6f7549eae34b67a8e237a55e SHA-256: c66c9627a83199ed026632fec8454dbae8528800d08657daf11530998399849b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. The document body is unreadable, but the structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9d79d52b5---96045417758.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076119ec34a4---26471628435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ac8e5e3e0d574099724e6ba9473c0f/lijizirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/vazokipopumafesoxirewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/99634030679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608066c95a40b---20636034000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/wusuzimimirud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73f45e4f27---nogolafejepowazowiwupudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/luxenadurikujine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96a4a1238a2ba0b626981d0c4ccc152a/52695889581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilmachineydy.com/d/files/funipebopuzofalasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078959ea3a46---febalodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a53d85d75---21934648302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb7b5927f4---gukenapibisajudiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/tepefukorajekegapubuxenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=osteopathic+and+chiropractic+techniques+for+manual+therapists+pdf+freePDF 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_off0001185e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185E 11156 bytes
SHA-256: d1ab3c17d40c4853fb70da555782fdba06547ab5547f7f8cf9cffc2b09e0da2f
font_01_sfnt_off0001320d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1320D 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 386784c165c6ed423cafb45e7d510a1dc3b1edb154dc641fdc6d643fbe07e79f
font_02_sfnt_off00015fab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1