Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f66799f7982647f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:38:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 25d64990bdf6efa697522ea55dfe9df5 SHA-1: b1c1478f9d293bf34cd58c15f600a459952921b0 SHA-256: f66799f7982647f4177f0219843e54cdcb3e5f18f5d93f96f1ea606b2d1d75f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URI indicators and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=remini+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/73880266181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/vedawivovejevujumegosomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a11641476a---sanogufaratazavujupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/58096909581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/46528305000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161462a99a1742---54852430730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c701de2899---81525734502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/nurawosuweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/sizurinepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesprotia.gr/uploads/file/pusegixedelubisabufawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/tedade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51352edad0b2951496c0294451b60279/33877667406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161418597b2dd4---56962256726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iswii.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73549491665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/fofogorizinuweredotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuathepvangohaiduong.com/images/ckeditor/files/72963059681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queenart.kr/userData/board/file/powewejumavupaxime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161446bcbb688d---dudubifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/pumaviburijegujuterug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufoxoduwivopejoxilisebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/31891013964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.phapluatvietnam.com/upload/ckupload/files/tunijipodikozofokikatadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroquimicadistribucion.com/zabaleta/data/imagenes_contenidos/file/xezusitutuzupagobovel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/2983588511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/motigatig.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_off0000eabf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABF 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 67ad350d8aa9162ed050ac74828b4e6d0f08c6c4fa52cd6abc308c39882560bd
font_01_sfnt_off0001021f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021F 22036 bytes
SHA-256: 1d4a6902b40da078d61d85057c60bec209f9b5ae34d31af0b092c0fa91751a74
font_02_sfnt_off00013c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1