Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65f01368be2350e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:06:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9c2f245d7b481a1c609978e20f7a36f4 SHA-1: f508d45755e61af41614c843b3a34447f2ab02b3 SHA-256: 65f01368be2350e58a8b25a0ec5ac875d9f63af22a2d1183f5f14af73f3e2e04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or redirecting users to malicious content. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised or disposable hosting supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137026ce2088---63817851907.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/70924875228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istanbulballoons.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajijokajoxuxotodeduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/72923940126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qishuochem.com/siicea/userfiles/file/83253618589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbazes.lv/images/userfiles/files/21007173967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/zupagavawimelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/xuwenozizafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconltd.pl/cache/file/pavopivolosejevufiwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/18712649399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamitobe.ru/files/file/sajurusilefijimowuxexagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/67706650962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescofesta.it/userfiles/files/wimibetugenumegizineja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6134f432b25d9a940435496132f21da2/33443454405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/pobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadhankendra.org/erc/media/96320671035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06d13a7323fd55df87a6967fc9b8045c/nudilumurosanobogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svenjakretschmer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/losekiwositapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drivingschool-brno.cz/files/files/xorivovuwelugoloxorenemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c92b453291---puxenijajifife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/15416469530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hansungid.com/userfiles/file/dovared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runnersavezzano.it/public/userfiles/file/56129427895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/giwafuvokugupotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cool+math+games+monkey+bubble+shooterPDF 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_off0000c030.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC030 10940 bytes
SHA-256: e4eaa8d487bb0baaac7e38079a3ca0a5ced4bbd16b6c83d9c890870a65349660
font_01_sfnt_off0000d971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD971 15764 bytes
SHA-256: 155ab7f9ee90f3bdcecd2a2899c3e5ed019b3edf390bb3318df44107c33f8e8e
font_02_sfnt_off000101eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1