Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65efe226f58d6c11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-10-06 19:47:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0edf4256729ed259f409acdc8e885cf1 SHA-1: 6cb9f4d5e989da340541833baea57467c14f6a27 SHA-256: 65efe226f58d6c115c765d8d56c091cee8410f703a5999e61ca2ef1baf4371b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates a potential phishing or tracking mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=justin+earle+townes PDF link annotation
    • http://zima.italie-ubytovani.cz/data/file/venim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141a09149c08---muzewovuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151af1a0f5f3---gagobowoluzono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/35193163244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuivaivietnam.com/uploads/files/10249913452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/tuzuvugilega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwaysthesame.pt/site/upload/file/95553155584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/4517072013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91132101301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mi-stores.com/basketballtotaal/images/editor/file/favalito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48580611210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blfimmobiliare.com/userfiles/files/rimedikupokosirobeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132982f04243---52039494846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classoft.ro/userfiles/file/kanibudetixazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/segujofafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210906022920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sb555.com/photo/file/kixezumixewetupotewamoran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad33e8bb9cad2b9e7ba0671a991d538a/jeperovituveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/79283839997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajej.pretty-match.com/upload/files/15117159951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasantitosrestaurant.com/userfiles/file/49779838802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/5837795787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafitazigizepajewinela.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_off0000e98f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A6 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 03cd2e34e2011951d4db5339386134bacb0c7ae254a2da98137027a8b03ce096
font_02_sfnt_off00011901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11901 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 066967b9e908902f362fdbce42e1013b8380186fee097db5fe5c7b1266a281d2