Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65ee611c0acddeac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-08 03:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b1b6577027a238bb19c902611dcb1a1c SHA-1: ae084ba5b2bb92cdeb5e1f35152ccd19020462cc SHA-256: 65ee611c0acddeac5fdacdc98b241616cb56b7999675f3774b4d6267984d0c15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially malicious URLs, disguised as a job application. The presence of multiple links to external resources, some hosted on compromised sites, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3e23bbc0d54cbc1190eccd6f1b82ac4/merebefasariraginuweku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.clinicaepilepsia.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80925217895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/valif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/19359245547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db5015ff146b295f94c21a592301b57/kupatovuzanigamaxaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/sanaziwenumugirebola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/zidolebur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609008ee7de38---zagezedununikisurigupot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6a911ab3623f360317be161aeb4182a/61739916734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/xidevoxipatagesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7779ed2a27---perod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851ede28250---63207094340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1742ba089---kidaxulinuxuvosuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609737b766222---69397126067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/pukuxoxajadabuzujonipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/27666007168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomas-reunion.com/clients/8/86/86f5f051d314e00f57792b8428d7085d/File/lajafeganitanenimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd792a65f72---91487625425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moderncarrent.com/user_img/files/zexodegabuzoxovajemajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/nijuduwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3ada4901a---43976279670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/fukepozamosofudamatuweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/184976165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+solicitud+de+empleo+para+rellenar+pdfPDF 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_off0000e7e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010000.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10000 11064 bytes
SHA-256: ea92a7cc005fb32c707cf232e0588445ca7befad5c4462415bd278d144dc2afc
font_02_sfnt_off00011992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11992 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 60381595a10b567f06b225f19503d402bb8537b68360091d8ac6d8ff303dba9c