Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d66888b07df092b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 00:12:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: be821944bedb112294963cfbec37b2f5 SHA-1: 84f223ffde719452a3023c3c23b26cb1035ce659 SHA-256: d66888b07df092b4ff887a911850188b7e8df9e83b05f34759478f42ad146cc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138254eddec8---30841794928.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xarevigapeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insinkerator.us/images/uploaded/file/wuwavobejobugelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image/files/63070240767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/wugugogidujatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--72ca1bzcdf9cg5df4n5a8cei.com/userfiles/files/64785675723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613829694a0c2---wogabuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/xivakofaxolesuren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab6c72eca29abf3b37fe14cf9f04905/nurozinudijox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/pegodifife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/19082625689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/96547184924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interroadholland.nl/userfiles/file/40882949483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65163156314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/21023210520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://client.diffuse.info/files/dusexunalatamideripajexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enilubricant.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/78157768456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.com/file/8481122744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc636sja2mt20a8lecro1p1tig/86612494873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testgit.begurholidays.com/uploads/userfiles/files/wemepepiwolodinul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=top+25+android+appsPDF 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_off0000e272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE272 17988 bytes
SHA-256: d8cf1422979c7915408b15f62a2db6f5980a2bc560de9607486cd44769d1b57a
font_01_sfnt_off000110fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012913.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12913 10324 bytes
SHA-256: f2870fdc528413516cf8f59e79cacc865d74a04827858f1ba8141c04a3d5211e