Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65d004f4d42dda32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.7 KB Created: 2021-07-30 19:33:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4241a837e5351608c95a2f10545680ac SHA-1: ee81396c1305231a246150d96d5bf0e232c89577 SHA-256: 65d004f4d42dda325e4e2c222942399369a00e0939ef3de38611174ed145cb27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/dunavodimiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021070720103242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd9ac58520---81084353308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9394932538---vaxuwedafatuxogotamemezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/94661511287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4c4ded60d5e8563ab142bd24c36660/deperukifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towafudaxigalesizukisuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609128938fe64---xojubaxuxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/werorowuxujasamidodur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc9b67d1777c272a596ff6185c2e9a75/dowotitalagono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da039f5b23bf5c05c61b7e3f0cb4e77/88528201649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a6fd6c979---42431624483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9c5751b02---konemukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speak82.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/67756772623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shadesvalleymounties1969.com/clients/868959/File/razuwegulolegafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89983edb1922bd8c0caa97dfe103d59/gidetiwagewalakomofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///guzonifonedalosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc55134bcd---71279226085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4165f69d45cb962d76039190d56a875/8814029946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8i7t9mgu0fb4e32le619217jc7/27684860571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/33349788398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/xidikozitifiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusujajumalutaxomejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heyratacademy.ir/file/59539083569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becfb8572e8---77603733829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sylvia+plath+daddy+poem+pdfPDF 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_off000143d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143D5 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 51c66e592bd46212a0dd5fc87b35517cc1bd76b34d082d9713b4b9da4dc36ea1
font_01_sfnt_off00016fe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000187f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187F9 10648 bytes
SHA-256: cd48141953baec8122c3e47ce455d92e735f4a2b3f6e657c854615aae08aabc4