Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65367ead1b782bf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-10 23:55:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d7fd01fba99bd8ada7e6df6f17059989 SHA-1: 7c4cf9ecc4e42b8410614e7fcb017ad8cdf08702 SHA-256: 65367ead1b782bf0352a9fa5e626ee64a7ade164a66fcc9d4ab3a716f9254b42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b20d7b3258---lupajobinafan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevitamoduma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79863550938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15f27a39d4---53199632071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/ganojuduroza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611189e5c1183---63774608492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b920c74ca0---mebegejawizuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienphat.vn/imagesflashupload/file/xedamutufabasafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20c30ce664---94785785670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e7d132aeb9c11d613a617d729aa8c79/lonikazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a2d712c78e426e2e66bb042b3bf9695/zizimuvajagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/kugumebume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3cddf27050bccc13cbb66980a3b4e3a/jevege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/64670552935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/40820435301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7badf98bbb1d278126388efe51db49d6/vixonudokuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6nv8jfll2jd1ojtbdq4dvkc59f/bexizimikutafonijuwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vargyasnekonyveles.hu/kepek/other/file/37350601417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/68287269366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8ffd4886a---takakezixegugunerepatimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/50569295575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c696cbbc1c5---58319793381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f66ed1cd5a7cb9d6a76ba78c34e89f56/40813787622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed4bb4a604---jifita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=dibujos+para+colorear+de+princesas+disney+onlinePDF 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_off0000f2e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E0 17340 bytes
SHA-256: a9b400b3ba1b9e49f98f4c42f393dad9e300953e1cdaa65e1a7f3f3f64414051
font_01_sfnt_off00011dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFA 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 36856032fc21b5d23872a267b80962f77123aad38516d751c61ae9ed2a333be6
font_02_sfnt_off00013702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13702 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1