Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f66ed109a2c88316…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:03:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 54cf72919f01b19565afb4ccb100cce5 SHA-1: e4b14fae715adfbba42599069be49c2c03c8adf9 SHA-256: f66ed109a2c8831601ea7e487bb2c64d844afcd0309fdd482cbd88bf122af09c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, hosting numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://kap-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59288443675.pdf
    • https://dineflon.com//files/vevikomunomup.pdf
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/94746634184.pdf
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/37165408887.pdf
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5e33551c3---79819423629.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc696493e98---14193655518.pdf
    • https://olterus.com/contents/files/zidipojotu.pdf
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b30f0f084---zajerurasamomuno.pdf
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cfaaf8c86a4f690e0e8b1f901429f92/mufot.pdf
    • http://www.pilartangguh.com/file/88070530818.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bs19v4cfas6bs9s9v9mhrvtof0/3901923275.pdf
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/korolazejaxe.pdf
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/zofilofisu.pdf
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80133907455.pdf
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/mazonofile.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e17a3e6a44d---sifoxufajujisigapunix.pdf
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/70581307923.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098823963d8b---kojenomawutorexaveb.pdf
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///pererudinavi.pdf
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/22679410449.pdf
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18c1dda422---fawikijamixevuvegabel.pdf
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/nujevotiwajas.pdf
    • https://avvocatoboretti.it/file/28332669420.pdf
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/76444787162.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sedimentary+environments+processes+facies+and+stratigraphy+3rd+edition+pdf
    • 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_off0000d18e.bin
bd37b3219f893692273889e469eeda93ab1c2c1a70194dff46fda59709da5079
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18E 11448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec43.bin
3e8381594b2825352f4c43b243e6718b0dd9f213ee0a70264f5f39895dad0c4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC43 18512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d57.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D57 16792 bytes