Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65a820983fb7e2e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:35:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0d840c2c996755a5d7122a2da6c5458b SHA-1: 25cc75bcd3b1ce6217e0d982478fdac9d1ce5ab2 SHA-256: 65a820983fb7e2e3db8485f096d6bfcbaa2d57ca9fac936ed802a3012727303a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely a phishing or malware distribution scheme disguised as a Flash alert update. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm suggests the PDF's primary function is to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+flash+alert+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/xurifefifodutafomel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ninugopofexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhd1f84n76dibok2f3ds1j7ekt/1130417308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kool-house.com/upload/editor/file/3442099509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petgears.com/app/webroot/files/file/wigivoxalaxuwogevomelelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75f9cfabdc53b3e62e8c358eb306f76d/34795479728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/kofabafofaxoxowemap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/govaxizowobezewixiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3be3b5924---50816583211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/terenigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duwavunijamodanujiruguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/jurizedezumufawefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/getez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/41506866990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascend.sut.ac.th/ce/2017/src/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tudabepofojogavodifisatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1631335842_39554bfa1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinojjacob.com/userfiles/file/68253880360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/40100673256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/15258024503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujiahk.com/uploadfiles/file/xatesitabegeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/8777293304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/88478560348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/93492752854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613024af43802---55095897178.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_off0000da28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA28 17404 bytes
SHA-256: e091973991a2411b02bc8445a5e4491d8d431a2233e544eded7c8f7d34cfad86
font_01_sfnt_off00010700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10700 10568 bytes
SHA-256: a207bd67223efc3a6aaf88efb0d0c4e1951803fb8f79accfd01077d4e635a0df
font_02_sfnt_off00011f34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1