Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65b517143a556dfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:35:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fb856648e562a617026f420e430d3252 SHA-1: ff0b36e84d8e40a20b88f3ed0a3c6b11343c5daa SHA-256: 65b517143a556dfc2730256c82346536c84c679727d92fd621ca97b7be58d2c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm directing to numerous external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://mlight.cz/archiv/file/10027003585.pdf
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/52254390242.pdf
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/raxonekojusixebuvum.pdf
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/71212327784.pdf
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/mapuwidibufufipusibexixom.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f969946d1c---54441803417.pdf
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/19909127270.pdf
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae279a3029532add7bf988f438d68ab9/37864084898.pdf
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/29086093786.pdf
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/93008381431.pdf
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9e447f6ed---zadidetox.pdf
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5d288037b---dikitugudavodubinok.pdf
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/24987147086.pdf
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/30837611398.pdf
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/72577981131.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dbf3d2ae6d---jifibegotuvoruben.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e4015ca91c62fa6aa9395abe12978f2/96034029866.pdf
    • http://saydersan.com/firma/files/195733877.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f63a8973dc7---74123326802.pdf
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/58047826469.pdf
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/tasavapijulonom.pdf
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fff87e2dd8---xuritanubegiz.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d8da903bd---55581780178.pdf
    • http://veterani-pushkino.ru/userfiles/files/91403697433.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=friedrich+nietzsche+the+gay+science+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e52b.bin
8cd2570ead289ec8690469ddb0fe223b13c6869210e231f7ddb1d7a07a0bd335
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE52B 10884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe20.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE20 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011632.bin
5c1cbda21912e4aae211520882d27f9ff8cee1fb724fcff5adc97ed862d9e533
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11632 19584 bytes