Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65cba8d450f48f54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:19:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 79747d9050ab092a152559481a39edaa SHA-1: 2203f3d05d4678070c36b2ec8e83659068078724 SHA-256: 65cba8d450f48f54d5eae5b54205cdca21d42ceca61e02c2704ed08bd525bdcd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of numerous links to potentially malicious sites supports the classification as a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://semihkerpiccilervesupersound.com/upload/file/kinezeboxesiganipujel.pdf
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/78887321257.pdf
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db167df2e8---16793472274.pdf
    • https://pcparts.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14023895891.pdf
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/fajunudemowap.pdf
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc3f6bb8e88---tufigojiroruzofuguf.pdf
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c13c27e1296c81784891fb4d3e5ea5c/gigizugoputuniluxo.pdf
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/sekoko.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hcpddvnl09i8aeo4m0padu5s4/xazoxorukatukekoragixul.pdf
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/12113553506.pdf
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m661d12qu25silt35lg826lreu/4537751975.pdf
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/37429130970.pdf
    • http://ukwoodrecycling.com/userfiles/files/64806059990.pdf
    • http://puntolinea.org/userfiles/files/23836673266.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca599a1a62---venuwu.pdf
    • https://evboosters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5672cf98db36c7f611fbcf0c5597d0/96319685682.pdf
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/3457080731.pdf
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/lugedexirugi.pdf
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/sugapolewikodopaxeto.pdf
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/bifekimur.pdf
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/dekoluti.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=english+language+teaching+methodology+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_off0000c0a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0A6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8bd.bin
1f5a853838fa7859cbfbb2c0cc5955665cdb4917ad76c7660ea6d1c053de8145
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8BD 11164 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f26f.bin
f76ff7ff22305b0c622d5b5d416a0e4e49f14d7283dbb5d2e09766237bbd53bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26F 19212 bytes