Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65ff51061d11e610…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:25:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d53b1cb92383eecae8a3364d6db77aef SHA-1: da2445d73ed8c31ceabd53286a6980b26e4a6ccf SHA-256: 65ff51061d11e610c134067d94e7a1ae5657e61193729f25d7064ec972ba5655
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs suggests a phishing or content-distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=you+and+me+but+mostly+me+sheet+music PDF link annotation
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/742e7213aeee0bc4df4bcd7717af99ab/nisululunewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/fesekexudopagebumuwokili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cae7842e9067ff4d862e8344b8594f1/33958715339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/xezegonemakexulaxedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809a4eae5a5---72687580363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609637bd2fd2f---kesijewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelstrack.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/mezimitanakokefafulomiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609448d29d3cf---rarofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/nofubinizumulikajateru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086919c9a149---gubitubigufafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977f6f6cf97---39093775587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aff1ed352---87457271474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a02822341a7ebd765f8977637228253/72176900294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/rirekivunezoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b93e81b28---tipulesibojozetagirugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7h53lr39m4r6gvkj42mnir061/jogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607039cb69691---58055136660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epicridesnepal.com/files/50425156693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonamedicalcenter.com/files/galeria/files/70076723840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ceab978016e79574853c33f0ccdb2e1/73400704471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b6c740ba9---47715343224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32cba276bb---ganuzovoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab34004cafb8d5e2d2de99808393d65/datojofoxibatobojumisejil.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_off0000e940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE940 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 4d982062e78d5e71e1beb8f85b3c04acc4411babba7c7d2f9da473afebbd4e99
font_01_sfnt_off000116cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116CF 10872 bytes
SHA-256: f9e7c428cc28f092321ace3ae51490a101b2f5d93477d77642ede2cd22cd8107
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1