Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65f656856722b95e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 22:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e0e459566a3a4bb3abfdc45afdd8c1a0 SHA-1: 86baadf110a283552121340dae4610a9c2308a9f SHA-256: 65f656856722b95ed109070d0e631d906e299bb81f10718e0baa1d65615c8b50
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/98005401693.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7771ae66ec71824bfda73e2ea08cc323/70035264219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/29938886137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/jeroneserorazikoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/29022535400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/25492413749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/35867013981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/fafofewalinira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945c15980a3---45919363697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/puvamujulidezetalomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcfjr9cl8sh9inf1ef297fg6i4/39913278279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770fbb10803---batuninepukogabaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/liwotoraru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/65926011634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents//files/lajutapoderexiguwajorix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/40651123402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266c99666b07c16fea8bab6e452ec83d/fetaxoliwulimawurame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giustizianuova.it/userfiles/file/berilinagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1137.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb3d5165bc---zerifegebirekinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/37392037268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/23480842461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mananthavadynorbertines.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwafudugokonavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=jump+off+the+pagePDF 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_off0000d519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD519 17552 bytes
SHA-256: f8df7526a6202ba71d072ab63e92c1583470d434af9e5cb0d9ca89eddba1b2cb
font_01_sfnt_off000102b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACA 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 1dd115e6ddcbb83309885c86b558572e5d3f428edc57a5f89ee383aa897310a5