Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e66f78fab3e4b5d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 09:50:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: cdc689eb056356495366750204575839 SHA-1: 00adaa9320fac114962d9f08521e1fe365e1c4ad SHA-256: e66f78fab3e4b5d4bb301a859f61d95ad5f2283a13fe20e03c7c1c3826af3099
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or known malicious redirectors. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues, but the heuristic firings confirm the malicious nature of the linked content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+the+image+to+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sieuthivatlieuhoanthien.com/upload/files/wukoxakepipepovuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/58371814765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/8737897164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dcde5416ea145032e42fe9fb84f39fd/74403821714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/gemovubopazavezepedaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9e0da36b6---popenusokari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpsa2fpjck609bhfu8f30uhpp6/83966165983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehrobrigheim.de/upload/files/40084601470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abbafde3ee---76405100362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/fasafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/32233750481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/27335168628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f15615f8ef90a1a7e60fa593f851200/dasuxonagulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c96aea413edf157acdaa5cda31e50f41/bijamopedudufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607603d953730---devutotibalumeletukufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8c460b999a---zonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/5834330547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d9d902221---sujutonesorabike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/71080569853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74127334039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/65083443093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a27298cba887e15dd55ab68c03561ddb/fexafedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fce32a17b3---doxalijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/falabanoxutuwisetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/11840644032.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_off0000d4df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF1 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 64f7838582c97a244173139fab2db2686c39aedabb74b303da5b82abc0acf42e
font_02_sfnt_off000118b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B8 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 99faaec0f2d393e417d2405205379fe943f9a049e9a4bd9d4ed2dcd0c79e7510