Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65ed0afdb1af1063…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:24:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 07d5a635660ead7e9bb62143aa7d0912 SHA-1: 47eb5da9d4d4f6415898fbfe1cb43e700d05f245 SHA-256: 65ed0afdb1af10632d92eefe1288c95593e6dc6dcbc12db3c925e38d06efaa8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to deliver a payload or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cloud+tv+pro+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/begux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonozebesolasezopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ace-pharm.com/upload/files/28023434879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arsvet.ru/img/upload/wakuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41e18a521964a8c69810d191c5ec8262/87405958482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copacndg.com/images/uploads/files/73064538159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/kopekopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414ceb48ce3---43006128421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qel4j10rr7i7uqc69g7c7r4g6/modolejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9262895.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawijusijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piketipuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kedehg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavekumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/081912495730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-pointpro.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazogaporomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/bapafokujotepovifakigoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/89934074385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/77704305672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/15074441235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416791b92b8---mamewoxuvimezomapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freewest.at/tabajaxojumiwusaludif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021090710155780554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411943e0578---nupepewesoribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/64001925002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/23423695626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elezioni2014.gds.it/userfiles/file/gegonuxibo.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_off0000d0ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE906 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 330b1f3600ea5d42e93b1e57930922b476fa14dc4241817450a09798b37578fd
font_02_sfnt_off00010074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10074 18232 bytes
SHA-256: 62b2d8f1ae7764790734cd71b891bc6e9b02c75b3a09f2c80268b67f3bb3bf25