Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65298bdeb81b7e24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 20:48:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 31adf0c9d3e2978d6439f4f4ae95bfd9 SHA-1: 1cf1b886bbaea3a260d626ace96e002c753ef39a SHA-256: 65298bdeb81b7e241414051c628e89fd3c5c1b7d4d2475b4405fd25cb4168ac1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=8k+wallpaper+for+android+mobile PDF link annotation
    • https://emons-verlag.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/11112680048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rsvpcatering-ar.com/files/imagesfile/20119757099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlugopis.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23012879770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzcaifeilai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/202109100314575561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a4ebdaa89---65938762648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sualpturizm.com/userfiles/file/xisiredirusefozagexafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mascotdd.com/file_media/file_image/file/72573934555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54e6a71d01d154615b2fa3e818f8b18b/zopinarujubukevolefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/xidokogorepinono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_23741877CA37C1F0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30307989276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tefen67.com/userfiles/files/rufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bk-plus.at/userfiles/files/48924641307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/20244713223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3266c94efda7e9b30d0f7ea2249fe8f9/53258510683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cfe1c6746---73836601547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zosijapomawafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/09/08/file/18204678990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.com/userfiles/files/3674460291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54510275521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/batupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineuniverse.us/userfiles/file/debalozitefobamime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwesi.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_off0000c1bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D6 10820 bytes
SHA-256: c58492f1d0c6ee5e37c16480008f483fbbf26f2941148587f870f9dc6456d96f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF281 16712 bytes
SHA-256: d931b1e4098355ed35dca09fbd3ff901047ee28ac4ba901f6a4890378b256986