Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 665e9003625569cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-09 07:02:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f508bdf07ca8f7ea3a5af5b90a1cdabf SHA-1: c5e1164b7c2e48b7cf8d54178e33ca7f7ad6d6a0 SHA-256: 665e9003625569cdb5733508b0ab0b57b5064c925b874dde38453ed6cf52b80f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+stop+hyundai+car+alarm PDF link annotation
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/97442794403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgreen.vn/attachment/files/putomogupepoziruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd3305a149d---53271325920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atonoserver.com/userfiles/file/nolofipapotabirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3kbd93hs6cssd7j2p93ftc867/sipolitiwigiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96a26362cd---renujizasotibudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c392e531eaf7163de459f24accf1926c/pazojamunopetujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osrclass1967.com/clients/8/84/84e84eb3bb32f45446e669e24fea3ebc/File/17147109512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1kp3pjfp3rqvpc3lkbteuehuo/wigusupetategitaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiesamadremarsala.eu/userfiles/files/96545177453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b09c1600ddd5eacc8cbc8b5836cd032/69857310276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents//files/zemuzosisusagofovubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada5528ce8a---pigelegojiduxidubowane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7a7de3a8e---33038785678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/xukutilude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oodow.cn/upload/file/2106210603309845479i8ndzue6luu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.net/scauserfiles/files/muveruwezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/lufizadudotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baretunufuluzozugupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608759fccd7cc---kales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/5519845049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60df858e0970ee0c4a1c66334ab8145e/fadefopesitexezugeralewez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/79395794254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a209b0feb96c5c951c15918ebce2790/94706123180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/tulanikigufifozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///desolovefebekaveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/mevizosakufu.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_off0000ea5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5D 17104 bytes
SHA-256: bcbb1cdb38ff866d521ca9b4cc554449faca4106058173bb2181cc0b59e4f789
font_01_sfnt_off000116df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116DF 10936 bytes
SHA-256: ed8999c27235e90a7d42b3341ad7882d768d9b78f0b5ace98081d7f30a11b494
font_02_sfnt_off0001300c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1300C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1