Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d666e0e06fd6487a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a84c3c36e2733f8c14655c6bbd49a2f3 SHA-1: da2637e92a01000a7a7ab3c9372bf65b447fc4c4 SHA-256: d666e0e06fd6487a5b490f1172540c51a17c2786651b5ff36869ae9d1fd7ef82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files, indicating a link farm strategy. Several heuristics suggest this is a compromised CMS upload or a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=partituras+para+piano+infantiles+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_6A45CAFD6EF18676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/58457582225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhavezbozi.cz/data/file/livorabolaxurojukujukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/binimodugonuluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/vuwulalunesukuzigipaxiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/67777862983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/birejenasaselepufipiluri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1e4992ad570be812e33725f6f86547/fapizegubafifinugifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/56469828780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9b7f5f0913---17657963812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/nivunedilanezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/62864518907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/23644564691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/19258167505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exam10.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/kunuziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6cbb5e9217a5b3f8760994f36d5a7d/bovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7jicpmbfqp5cb09dage4n7iete/nupavenejusubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://12shio5.com/contents//files/pilerinenagebaxusijebexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/userfiles/file/94391190390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macphersonproperties.com/clients/876251/File/31228323553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/84476506110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609727210766e---jodedifutelapirapofilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/69795404910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/88943522192.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_off0000cb7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB7B 19628 bytes
SHA-256: 38ba97d388deeab42edb04df473e7dbf77ed21b88cec3e83e984e70df774ea0d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011535.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11535 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 25fefd1e0a1208d0cc9797dd2539c4aa586a36dccc903a23dadbf7b1f8030abb