Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65566ddf2ff8837e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:58:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d9e17b94c0c5809e8839a56a2b4a82d4 SHA-1: 4b92daf2d9be66f343ca96aa22399de588c1cb82 SHA-256: 65566ddf2ff8837e01336f95fe89ee604ec817c9a6f5616a03aa7ee20201056f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kindergarten+number+coloring+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/40946895893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/76541706034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/jeginobupoguxuxazera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centerforsurgery.com/uploads/file/16611230139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/84106065159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4deb8d549---zoneketomiluxojozesakepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b4b4d3307---18421841418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/71852013174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ivuvabowinelapugadivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756d3323c69---82638304149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/8414552013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/lipemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l42klqilqt28469j47a0596dqh/96901617285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0e43df8af---21416126330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/suditusakotetoradew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/66759471846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/kakiwomepebanipajoriwami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1627881803_3690ec440c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magiccat.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapiwuwitewizefovuneraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/xotidukifimudedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eownauto.com/uploadpic/files/fivapimatena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/bever.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_off0000bb19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB19 11224 bytes
SHA-256: db8695fc267c9d50f080de94c50d3ec19d2ac1b19f6b43aee5e3be0fbffd8f1b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD503 16532 bytes
SHA-256: 29f324aa2e4d95e0ebaef2d1b4ebf37fa01982967aa695de8ac1f6f0e064425e
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1