Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 965aea620d34fa4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:38:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5d530b37f4e7944914fcdbd3d882004b SHA-1: cc671697a2dfecd933441f263cd86e81a373dd2c SHA-256: 965aea620d34fa4f3307239e7473befecf40ff333329ccc1b2ef2a8c50bc2e75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ac13d8f161ca7160c4e664c0da9f30e/71048058212.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/bapinizoxapuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/26861641714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwpetersburg.com/uploads/files/siregopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073de0838cc2---40560688303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5ef3c6aaa---65773824797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a28a2d42a---zopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swiz.eu/files/editor/43388910469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/15732593396107c8b060a81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca0ad9a1e16ccc3c6b583c31c5872514/pejiniboluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/87810160313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/46139412156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b33fddf5469248616604ab7f57228334/14026546004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81063970627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210903131940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/melejomagosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/588561788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalleasingny.com/admin/images/file/67476664857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manixcnc.com/ckupload/files/gugewodabagufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1apq25fl8372bbfn5ng4nqnd6/jinewebunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e463a53169d4ee1ac6f9205006778f33/24364943609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50017935434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7jr9mgdoj4ja8l850s3vah55c7/39927384906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d14d7915062e7809ad552fffa8c6b3e/32053490166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=roman+catholicism+loraine+boettner+pdfPDF 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_off0000e7dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DD 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 7128b29b7db6eb565826f9355bfbf3ee0245cf3b15fea14bfd0c3fc8ab833f4b
font_01_sfnt_off00011517.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11517 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 8402f648f801239e89eee3b5b1e90e28bfa651c4a91c639db0e85f290dc15f93
font_02_sfnt_off00012e70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1