Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65c32a1e03992487…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:17:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 605132121f5e9ba86ccf4d946efd429d SHA-1: de39bbe0f117b20b2d5f7c8ee2d908ac2e67a1a7 SHA-256: 65c32a1e039924877740d55bcd6a20c953b74801a71dfe2702cf798959c5a940
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to lead the user to a malicious second-stage resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=north+west+direction+for+work PDF link annotation
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071585f954d8---73807538718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926d2ad8310---83217273551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80866f94e69a201bce87b865f9c76e4/16364670786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/5396251838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210623113732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/8918062536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wlpp.net/images/blog/file/18012366985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fn75h24qf91g899dcaedihi051/migefogepitiburixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j1fg13css01cbo50con8hr7j5/jekezodijekezagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/55468228157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/95666648047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806a2e6a745---ganegiraral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/tebedetokixupuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/zoxumuraxejepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed69f1f614---54667838293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3g47m45l146664sulg64m1k84/juxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/97147970887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/45660120408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2924675b9bd36e6981e1e402a30ca3f5/duvedazadakufejazaxaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/42041940336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/6922429901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8daae5a7c---33242740484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16030d26c7f7006c9c3e97fcc6abe0a0/fikiwijude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/31209049775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/watididerexukujazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/781ab10f5361974925eb59dce7c8637f/57596103725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjr6f93928sofld8cfbk1m3rb5/59180095478.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_off0000f82b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82B 17476 bytes
SHA-256: d0f2d51a665664915eb7fd2780155cd0d03936b834d4f5ae62b8e6864d7e8da7
font_01_sfnt_off000125b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B5 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 998b3bb46d846d000dd58d90d39b81869379cde150c427e26de999d4ff8a2923
font_02_sfnt_off00013db0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1