Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65aab57a478b615d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:05:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 601515c4b128581ac5651e5a734111df SHA-1: 68571b2a645ac7b95c1ecd6ee7bf827f57c47094 SHA-256: 65aab57a478b615d5e29c64d8438baadf50cd9e00143b75513139ca9dd0fefff
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the 'Password-protected archive lure' heuristic suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b06f51f75---18894376312.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/jimuwivokejide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efd118a0f0---73511413135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/xatifubuwisilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/borusekasulafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08206ee6e510af05dd0464d82faa3c1c/rafemisawezonigagizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/93073705687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/nifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janaturismointegrato.com/uploads/file/3483942342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/rejabopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/jeravasigefarazosatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/35859699559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/zodokepejuverafinodugolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa1ec78915---23085271371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148a58e1cc421bde226829ad4014b03d/wejikakiloxukedisilabukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090522c134c6---piwirazudaxadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/37703733207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121581a36335---15492495336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michelbarbot.com/upload/files/94067052325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc0bf205803---meloxasanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm100of0oqmi8icijk7p1n1gd3/60255553507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9e859be1b---varuzalovipamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j45g6m10at5oifh75racjgbfg/rilumotepisugeropar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/xurusaviraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtijsr.com/userfiles/file/popoketedotonama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=modulo+cedente+sicoob+manualPDF 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_off0000e152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE152 18828 bytes
SHA-256: 24c38cd023cb6e4b09ebe011fe7ff257e56d549d0df468c0cccbbe0f1f58b817
font_01_sfnt_off000112ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B04 10664 bytes
SHA-256: ba49e97301bfeae4d9a7c4bc23433344326f17380f994883611e3e0badd49c25