Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 565b5517b4e71b6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-02 07:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: bedfcd7e0febebb13961d2308edbad96 SHA-1: 4a2290b8332b5caa2ba17cf1c2b1703c7ee9a8ac SHA-256: 565b5517b4e71b6ca3fff9ec9890b7e8125b531e58bf7a3514b494e6ba0c658f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=problemas+matematicos+de+6+grado+de+primaria PDF link annotation
    • http://michalpavlicek.com/uploaded/file/tovogilebivovabirobeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/4928253088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da07f7ca11a14ebd400cbee5472acd8/30265798448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba4c2962e5c---53042854327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8lkpqi762h06628jdceepvjq3/15157158238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47104727647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e39bb509992---voduvasesubawoxujusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/32487870602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a861f0639---10506821392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae45885b8b8---kevekofifosajitawexedogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2076fa23e3bcafa4a59f7e5b347751e6/xepotezazezefofugukexaris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607014248bdea---kunujorofibesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/80308364022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7c3df10d32---tesukojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c687d9fc1---gexowuvabesujevezegurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c511113953e---duwusalisojinisizesexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mibewubilijuvajigotuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/76439928884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/relewadunomufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65b3281e470302705c067277de1a645f/10944396180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd137ba09d---loniruruxulipiguzoberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1cce064c7---9587740221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161076bfc35604---xewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609276f58119a---disawezixo.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_off0000e9e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E9 18748 bytes
SHA-256: f4144f7a630b9a7ae4ff3c0edd7fa6cec97c6b2636a61e8216a0880dba74ec71
font_01_sfnt_off0001199a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199A 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 04f9a9bfd36bf8de7e5517a74e20c17e1bc28a29a07c80ffb9a912220e7fe16b
font_02_sfnt_off000132fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1