Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 265f5a0e73795166…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:18:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: beb03235e99dce6e91b88a4ff5f2001e SHA-1: 34ad296a0722d311fac666d6cc7477a7c90c16f0 SHA-256: 265f5a0e737951667ba7752f9fd6f8ba589c9692a559faa360b2e7b8d494ef54
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=doh+notifiable+diseases PDF link annotation
    • http://vdi.vn/userfiles/file/48710161372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nomortiga.com/contents//files/43077006352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecodiagnost.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739be36c7a2---jivanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3rh31lsn3msnbeve43g91kmj3/mireled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/85190408227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd92b520b4---86902598144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designgaleria.hu/userfiles/file/67525792984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161255273ac7ce---zoxazatunaxilebiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/96636410300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/kabirumukogujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086173d40b0c---kafamogubopavedemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypdtools.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/70221342943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99b991ce02d22178a21b3defab6d968d/78174817160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608580e293289---22139622676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koparieshorvathbusz.hu/files/file/ravutulonopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/234332690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fa4d684dbd---dipagodaxedirosetuxekuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/21589216039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda8dbed472b0ea64988292e84d98693/gudifijadelog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39700865eb19b0f6c6a62e3c36c8a8aa/1256907661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esvnnp49isbvp8nmiinh67cnq7/kazogogali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h38ea99ooiqslqakmre0upg6c0/85487330219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/gejusifufosotazumefe.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_off0000ee2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001063c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063C 17960 bytes
SHA-256: ba0013ca24aebc7bad48e4ca8b7c625fc19c230c528f8b150d2763bee2e97ad6
font_02_sfnt_off0001355d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1355D 10492 bytes
SHA-256: a273853da2bbeac1429d9d53482e1b9962ccca9fcb2c4cb33590f49399fe7eb9