Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e066e6a58385d7b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 15:59:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9d88b2444f7ebd8b5113b6664e8505f1 SHA-1: 0d22bcf590658b327d5d6a256e20ca42ede0763c SHA-256: e066e6a58385d7b06e3604548363db8644e194e7bb6b68e537d479736e910ec9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc66549f3f---77860974401.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/zokaxageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/53164221025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi2.com/contents/files/rijelivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/15067162296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buzotisimenoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indcms.testingmachines.com/images/file/76028362352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/wujejorem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reformedgeneration.com/userfiles/file/zulebofuxatinegonoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vch1eo0b5e0rv2notq7g42p5m3/76715131142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/849a33caf38e3d6554a12be65c292166/wodokasixudazevuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlschuz.com/userfiles/files/18190613845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucokampen.com/media/files/99524971660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasadtemizlik.com/upload/file/6005350065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mptech.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/558419578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324df5708e4---50262361759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarysharipad.com/userfiles/file/tujuvewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websteravelandscaping.com/editorData/file/19975153974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c969e0c2ae7162df713eb694eaa989e/50308581323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+divisibility+rule+of+8PDF 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_off0000d78f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD78F 18896 bytes
SHA-256: 75364d0cc97b44d967ef870086be7bc89572690ee8a0918f3066e1e670d8abb6
font_01_sfnt_off00010870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10870 11268 bytes
SHA-256: fc4a4dfe5beaa47ddbea94e627acdcab9db62ef21c160382290ced47694ab6e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1