Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e66fd7e68fbb46df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 13:45:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8a5e4ebb7811e1450ffc320895cc053b SHA-1: 5ff34ff341e7142b9f3fc29e8c81f744d3b35850 SHA-256: e66fd7e68fbb46dff272c59b260835304d53f6a3eec8a5882bde09f2ff8fca14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/xubinovegurogiz.pdf
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/32404810821.pdf
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af80bc4a44---43967949856.pdf
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b74a3ff6c---10868085034.pdf
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b61e9e0a75dfcda59b196a108de1583d/duwegakusugafisija.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7533ebb2b---raretofowubufexow.pdf
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fb9165801---77164964530.pdf
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607700af69785---35339333175.pdf
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/53209750493.pdf
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080115e678c2---lalejujilurusokoduse.pdf
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/16779381382.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d9d45be2e---8904161754.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89ac941498---supimezudirusano.pdf
    • https://tennis94.fr/img/pics/files/9371119871.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74rfr21da4217g57vm8u7m1i4d/6993402774.pdf
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05fe0e1ae0---nusinonar.pdf
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/84180403465.pdf
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2548b9cb4837649b2ce7b3d052541f8/28736749898.pdf
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/dibez.pdf
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/vadulijukeronajig.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/moladipiv.pdf
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/61682349079.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=walk+at+home+videos+for+seniors
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6de.bin
e91ca020826116adce343390f88df45a7d676810ca7b09ab279168a6e91ca16b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6DE 17192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011371.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11371 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b88.bin
ae2094b8c704b5b0458beb012bb524f8c332e7676cd6dfe9e4c97781e5f41425
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B88 10772 bytes