Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e066e4e707302f32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-08-21 18:37:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 71e191552808038dd9fd49c0e7795d67 SHA-1: bca8be32145fa0a49ffd1af1d8ce2f31df23f19a SHA-256: e066e4e707302f32336f6863db6d15e47a8571c1e23c670012118c73a379a6e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or SEO abuse. No scripts were extracted, but the structure points to a malicious document designed to lead users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9515d4ffdad0df75c0b1da1591c2263/74105570441.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/padis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antropolog.ru/userfiles/file/najixezilipolowududenibux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2555ea381e8ce69d7d13918c79316758/26767340099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/kizasevopopejewexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736c1412903---29070368797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuraxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e00ab3827---64935175538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://painttechvina.com/webroot/img/files/dexuwage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/nalutalegobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba351b592c567qtsmijph79llp/riwukuluvujajuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/sitoxisurewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/wilominimomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210627_34FA126F56BA5A4A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609344c7174bf---26707258949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/sazavotonagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6224236acf829b455ab3ef02151f19e/24113869116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c48a9986a8374631d1df34ca5858802d/kavobikizumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09044565a31e69f510af46d65c66232b/40371551077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3887eac74bdd1ef6e1e4a7e6c46085af/73340336042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47191944dcf3cebc3a6f20e1c3628e98/76651796602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8n7knu1vf95sracbhjeo15pjr9/basajizemaxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ac4027903b2669770a4f0ea771195c2/79664419922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsilver.kr/files/fckeditor/file/2078040581610d0b92bef24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0350a89baa8ea857e6ba4c75582df84/kisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=polyatomic+ions+worksheet+polyatomic+practice+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000de33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE33 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 8115f5937d03a18cdc5a1cc7ecd53ac29e930eb5d1b8541ef54c33cd0bc4f2eb
font_01_sfnt_off0001081e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081E 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 8aa48fb9a8ee3c8b4dd6a161813547b90913c0167490ea723994aa0a3e5fdb85
font_02_sfnt_off0001215e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1