Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65693a663e2df09c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 33a2426abd18bdc79333d962dbae618b SHA-1: edfeed245a394e622467e0ef28aceaa95952cba5 SHA-256: 65693a663e2df09c966cb929266113f3e966dc52f32fbc099228b5ff9bf79897
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=want+to+talk+in+spanish PDF link annotation
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607778411dfef---vomotovekixusofuvodogosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785ca868a1c---kafunovokawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/kopajiwiboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b0ab160865562e7873cf0056446ffc1/wuwuvazikalalaralejigol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/56470232502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0731.com/userfiles/file/20210618140139_rgoxr4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc42478efe3---lasimazuregogugaziguzudiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e050990c8463e3a1d989751a58ae8213/tadufotewekisopenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/197d7e3e2233025897f057e7f2dcb24f/67989677523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/50408378017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0274c7cbf5---85511967409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16dd893088---zaxinugikepefirogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/zosexaragadederiretodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7b9a0baa2---60188596825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/29479094558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/powenuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5869a4eba---mefum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b9f8d3096---bosopatikipamexevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd23a2f9cc---fobaporovufifixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/622fa1662257369a46457dd2af913abc/pimumugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76c984bb46---turafokelegavupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c45ad0a0e8---varolawatiwadawukixatabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd1b69c7dbbb217ab666aaad828c31f1/65362337141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/66112596894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afaeaca71fc4c49e238c31788b1aca49/godanokufixupepi.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_off0000ef78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF78 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 5c1d8c7ee468ad8565d7440d72ec695c977936792ac7b04fe64feaa358a978d2
font_01_sfnt_off0001064c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1064C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E5E 18412 bytes
SHA-256: bc8cd0231ba0d255e0a669e42a67b57e287df5f5ef553dabe2ae73d61f6a7b38