Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65dba4bd72304fb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:01:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 13979e5ec9e9f80222014136172c0df6 SHA-1: 940bdfdb3d98ab01d25f35157a94b632eab7411c SHA-256: 65dba4bd72304fb3e899bf295841cd32bef77b6d21ee5181015326bc34e6c668
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, particularly those hosted on compromised WordPress sites, are the primary indicators of this malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cdc6c0aad---89047099371.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/36291347904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897df6ed6f6---pipitasisemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/340b882d3840735c523c5bb7f4a60f04/45862070045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/47541335433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772f8d627d6---52638654334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/nifefavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toddfamilyreunion.com/clients/4/48/482e924d5a052aa4a0c13eb8a30e0bc8/File/19783659687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2b0839144a---zexadovivipogoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/filonenaduvokizaxukewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formel1vermietung.de/userfiles/file/fizotugiwefalus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52417738913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f044fe84d2f77781b935a341236a74e2/bolekajofamunalefugiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9daf70c32---54729280070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/vajebeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/koxigujatufifiluzixunubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a89fd060ce---33344293768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19c3d181bb5ac9a89cc3f439475b822f/bulasarubajezunodesesazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acceab983a64064efa96c57ade9445b6/vemotupipukipofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61bed69551---33070302656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/vatofasivabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92bb22562633f1821bc36f056a8a6c37/65582304669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/kofesekikopalutemavuvetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunuwipulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uug3tmf2cecbelp4epgvqs2jp/pixowitalutewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=living+in+industry+revolution+4+which+media+is+more+convenient+and+usefulPDF 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_off0000d5c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C0 17300 bytes
SHA-256: dd255edd2e3630df2e580ed6972dec6791ad436e22685216f3aee4de3e1ee2f5
font_01_sfnt_off000102ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AB 11324 bytes
SHA-256: fa8ab64da28748b8d4769a64e9845baf0f49dd86bd8e04815ffb2027a7fbfb80
font_02_sfnt_off00011d09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1