Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6565ff15d7bee10e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:05:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 99997aee03f9c56b2b0fc649fdb3a709 SHA-1: 91badcedf16ff461f7105a0fca64fa793215190f SHA-256: 6565ff15d7bee10e5cbffe5444d2ce698d98b3402a4493812a16c340f1899919
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eab82a0065600d866ed165a2e2b3b375/nadigijibanabawo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/tiradiwimime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7be406afa---56571750625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/pimizerabese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902bba016eb---67114695057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55c186c4a909efa9b420dd5fee5bfd51/40207013209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210508/file/jexagika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f610608c2e037485bf8dd97ec939d83/3905973313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogbchurch.com/clients/880797/File/9937496240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4e2b40a79---mururowowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4247f9564259dfa8246bbca2f3a7e28d/rarepopenanenolefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57389836603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-6-9/20210609130837159997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb3b5214b84a0f29ed0ae8e6a1857445/69665722330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=social+issues+faced+by+youthPDF 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_off0000fd69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD69 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 692471e0cc39d14ec8e3e2a02b78eb10757808793226c61bbe2c999274c75daa
font_01_sfnt_off00012b01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B01 10796 bytes
SHA-256: d0d386b99c0aadcbe8f9f4c757542621658aad0d40d71cfa172924cb23eda1ee
font_02_sfnt_off00014403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14403 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1