Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65b35524a5fd2287…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:05:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d3215d84b59eccb3db12ea9dd4fd779a SHA-1: f4731bb910a84c5e38e4998e19962318d4c7c69d SHA-256: 65b35524a5fd22874bf9a4761b218504978c0506b808eb57b2fb5f92ea36b7a1
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing. The heuristic 'SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to install or connect with a remote support tool, a common tactic for credential harvesting or further malware deployment. The 'SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH' heuristic specifically identifies Netflix as the impersonated brand, with the call-to-action link host not matching the brand, reinforcing the phishing attempt. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inkwire+for+ios.
  • 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=inkwire+for+ios PDF link annotation
    • http://thechitay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jexuroxivusebawimidete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/265253044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef2ce389241f3510aa9a06ee7fd979c2/nutojojejagofaxejavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/nozilejupukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastravariaizvoarelebratiei.ro/images/file/bawowiwufuvadufonuserosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kexikulubupuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/xazuxunikubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srs-budapest.hu/uploads/files/sikirakoxomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613567f7286cd---derakevizebujetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/taribosom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/16223243493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210903222404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/murud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f028a345aece43a7c1c9feabb1edee/394808062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtaisay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/lufenebenuzaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnartourism.com/uploads/file/vawudezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/kisezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/55495240535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rireenfrance.com/images/upload/files/xojobewaroduporix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/50850226331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/gewegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/52199474834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmasgroup.com/userfiles/file/43739822725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/petuvajapobirafawafot.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_off0000d91a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD91A 10032 bytes
SHA-256: e72f6994251876fe98864be1d60d2cda992b18582598037dc9e4af9fd9152048
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF8B 17284 bytes
SHA-256: a02f90bd3d451d49a3e522bbc3e3498ecb7accedd56482230b66161bc1b95ac8
font_02_sfnt_off00011c88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1