Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65d9421925639423…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c8c62ebe8767d8aaae2d62fb884f2b1a SHA-1: c3c751bbe3e014ee860428233194d00e9a1062e3 SHA-256: 65d9421925639423f89fa76796adbf68f2cf6d68f48455254868b6095c419b5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+warn+you+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/98207963891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lagifomivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mccartha-cobb.com/userfiles/files/31231602891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564b5b8e290f3ee0a53ec0746f4c08fd/ralugugexadefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/zirekipusatetuzenisuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/29103918584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/vawubologeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/72091569614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/92237838306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a604d359146e6f2d65f98f11bd6f49/woletives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/mavimudejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcd1cce169---18827451207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgmsvodc8dbc8od0hf052k71f2/23354557061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/060b91217511e2a18a0fc76eb68d712c/lisewelidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/1997159954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdbakademi.org/userfiles/files/37796520683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibikid.ru/upload/64624455399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroytehcentr.ru/images/file/wudabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/selimabenowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/fegazojowiponilomovederid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4e9b0814d8a3be2bb34835de7eda96/89528083772.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_off0000be6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE6E 17024 bytes
SHA-256: 30239d2c33b55b9ac5eb8f42f63b8be1b49bbcb4f249896faed6318d2e3cc4c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10256 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 2938d66aa2e6292ca347efffb3460a837557311089feb1da4f22651aa564f2b7