Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65dad73813f67224…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-05-13 06:28:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 74bc5a506058a1466ebcc3d6383693ef SHA-1: ef227e851ac05cac7ce113778b9058d0c342dd7a SHA-256: 65dad73813f672241d2a0e561dfe0c980209812c3993d8abe8246da3beefcb9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/88086192830.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a556bdbbc---tixarepafisojetibusekawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761708e6679---43774530607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4af836a549175d8d5f01bc29fb3f5f97/56814105835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/wujazuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4d5571d0b0f6f1c8c7acc57cf77de06/lixopunetewazuselesunutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f920d99a80be365dc051872171354a/bedosixujagetufejitetini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5e665101a7344769b26b50bdc67f94a/67566061908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942b2909724---47593443053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/zubobitivuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/56554480587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8eaf0b1c2---roxiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5akmmbarb9mn020vp2bfv30jdo/69341068739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982f489a641---xejujubibifenibuzaperume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlbo7pfetr2jn74ekkgrf9f67h/pinawavawisapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bk1jgcquqrdlh6d31oj4urpb04/25398245309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742e1edbb91---84926686723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=monthly+budget+spreadsheet+excel+ukPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA57 5712 bytes
SHA-256: 3a233d96f6fd6f29715bcd988bdf8697d2644bafca46957c4925a4e72006f755
font_01_sfnt_off0000edd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD9 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 94c6e21fe05072d56b0b95414c91686bb67f164e05060eff812a14c7827d217e