Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0065a399604e3811…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-05-12 00:22:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: b7df0e3a26c78b7fdce746f5a2cdaa31 SHA-1: 2c66ca413c495f6cc206a0cdc1cdfec1fb9b93a3 SHA-256: 0065a399604e3811fc12821a23d8c4c6666c56cfbde2f504467cc4251c800bde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting a malicious intent to conceal its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4481f94a3c00fa2cf982b88d20f6c505/62861382150.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebdd7b5772---tiluwesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fbd4d7cae97f13baa8afe0d63f30ffb/45129597756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609461d1e941e---nixafamevobukoxipuropoduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cg42dkusekondr3pi38uihco96/35750605253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/filejamagerowina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608395cba1789---pufosivovifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h67r0t7ndqh73n8e7ers1nd2h9/48662768708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6219bbd9a712fbfa8907a938812a5b1e/vofipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/91595551781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/risasugumojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctoua976b1i7eeqk5v95u0v66j/78749657852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21efd3da3330f9e047c68cdf260ae768/20869030384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcbebetq2gcnh669rl3uei7q9g/67154501581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=a+level+physics+revision+notes+pdf+aqaPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD7B 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 61e1512d0987b0564faeaaf022629d5069be7d75e8a911d65b2ba3a416976e4b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE042 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 34686a8c5e5231bd20fb4be6e3720f9c25d8b1472e96dfb7aa731b9457b3137f