Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8660f6635374028…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 22:58:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7d86af466a6fe8ad3751afc0ef4d8418 SHA-1: ed99aac10ba4a427fccec3fb8f02c9d34e157f35 SHA-256: f8660f663537402813111a8b2d1a9a382f73798b80c8fe4abba0719701d97e43
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are associated with compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting. The heuristic firings indicate a malformed exploit stream and a high ML score, consistent with a malicious PDF designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/64274986167.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/banikawigalorekanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ac24debe0---75023964518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b42e48488df88aecc89f57b2df6391b/girumebipixurojofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/pizagosiwixixaxotavefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/68538968352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf5add213a---57064557177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/pugozufore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/pisolilejevujilebivezupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/vavisoxofamebugitekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashole.hu/UserFiles/File/duwubexuzidodaforulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bslfh89r35r62geubc6fjhrt2/voned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/52225419092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/kofolirozuwurukisaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607815b9dc894---lutobutelasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/21208723444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d4c97c376---91335557421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57c2615a4e---45797000872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutandcolorparrucchieri.it/file/batoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/79700448917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1bcc08d757---vafunesozitofuxofenuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c3666c88f4a2806a8d133db8ef1624/30948032218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpju3e9voc998kci1mog0a3b75/25917120307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=worded+ratio+questionsPDF 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_off0000e66e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE85 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 26bb479a6f1edff023c0c0ce084d182156990ae7a27781cd74d9816feaa968a0
font_02_sfnt_off0001161a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161A 17676 bytes
SHA-256: ffce79c6b2945923d6ba3c10ae56f9bba76da2c665f8308323dfb80f7d207490