Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65cd7bccf1ffeb97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:13:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: df08ba24ffe60fa9b26ce8ed0026b5bf SHA-1: 408738034f190b014afc5f8f1fb882d7e7b9db53 SHA-256: 65cd7bccf1ffeb97591f9389ff9a5026e38a8451088647cd33e7a797602ff87f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or redirection campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608add86bd6ea---25827035086.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20b4a3a99b---lovivimawopolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/41732223604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdc0637a6d7---67458165517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/98342222823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/xiranatubazakuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/51685048219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095eb7773ef6---bovubavunajifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087209406e73---17657102853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/74080147121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e90dce1db7---65781867396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16248412836117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abed0b94bc3c82c81dab0514b021a168/xadovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sintsprev-ms.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71405265282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/46947297038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf01a1455de---63796350503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1e422f02b7---209028962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120ef1eb6550---gexeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montrealpsychologist.org/clients/c/c9/c9c46cd79ea88ac5ae94f64bb0de8c36/File/womol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1223d3c16---77239934234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eb413abae963e80c9365e8c3cf6035b/kexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b258c347ea1---gotavamire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/52654002190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80a75010c6d33b8f6ef1902641baf9ed/74496621165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=polymer+physics+rubinstein+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0001102e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102E 21488 bytes
SHA-256: 43cfccd436114e188dad7711b214cb9b98adbea884167887d4626bd83f19de34
font_01_sfnt_off0001485d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1485D 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 4f6ff14bb4efaeaa67b4e182b608eb17b446fe2d514fa47011adc15bff4ad294
font_02_sfnt_off000162b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1