Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d66ac804fd8e0c73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 02:11:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7357c9a04a1a237c87aa41d98e53e4d2 SHA-1: eba1e9171a25173a2b240fad8f1928fcad25c912 SHA-256: d66ac804fd8e0c7317fbeaa07cabe1020278364a53fe68b141d45497704b87b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised upload URLs suggests an attempt to host or distribute further malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1295cac302---xemoramije.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/pixovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b349cb17d---wolelefabuwodafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/66433444978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/57134805744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/nojiwewitegutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbcmedia.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52475167851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/wutijunuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parishad1925.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugesetixatevotejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c3e33bab347b6331127049775e34209/56575974527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/xasujudadexowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c74e9b1000---93227484946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fekuwenepoporat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ef75f95f7abe28955b1069bffaaecac/xojovazonesedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/divonigifemegival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49a8ee3f26---wobizagazululuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/nukekinud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouwservicewinthagen.nl/userfiles/image/file/48578747013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/zokoliker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e892d2019---bavuvotuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/xaraxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c46f0fffd---midapode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c56542c2f7---nitipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=13th+hour+haunted+housePDF 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_off0000f102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF102 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 538cef56035efd4895e1907865df1efbc7c1cc37f7af6d7333279f6e4658c55d
font_01_sfnt_off000108a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A1 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 834308151164eb8526e83855855e1f485d93643a1b9d165c77e5a41a1c6db617
font_02_sfnt_off00013693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13693 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1