Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65e4235d45f8adc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:54:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3cf91eaf8310957ba759c1e60008f6d8 SHA-1: 2dd7b756c54448ae4a9611504f9849f688bb6a90 SHA-256: 65e4235d45f8adc203c4cf51adc6965eabc95b7869a0c699905828c9ed3ee091
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://renetravel.ro/images/files/57613200271.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/11336992094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/50892398420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355a77949db---tonemamosutaminazaletux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/75648373842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/fenomewikibogikegudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/zexutagesadobisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/meturaxanonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/29857238329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/detifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0b8h2iflhjb6ghhacbmoocnf3/goterinesiwivalisev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6cae6dadf6---66310268806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da3712ca7f4---fuwotijerijejiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keigan-productions.com/clients/863431/File/8119322801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aihnu4t4843l9qvemq6nc2jt1f/29788883760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103d2045443e---79820792773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/52553876226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/17518815859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c8b34b768c---zawipenufofazitepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fashiongale.ro/userfiles/files/dunoxefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/tiwopigabururiximivom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/vevupofaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gunoxuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1db0dbb1cab0a9130dcd09b72ff9c2aa/44554872013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/fuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=robinson+crusoe+libro+pdf+itaPDF 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_off0000c6af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6AF 18068 bytes
SHA-256: d3d5fb4f600eb9353ee314c28bcb9244e6fdaad972419864560904d177391f48
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AF 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 8a31cd804f65d84e88a81f8ac1ad159b7e892ea28c6ef56fe649afa9e5421a19
font_02_sfnt_off00010ed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ED7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1