Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a65b1d2431331380…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:22:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 65ef68b794bac6923249963b66377b66 SHA-1: b90527d2b9ca7384ccd70fe8533f8ec4a2715b06 SHA-256: a65b1d2431331380fb265f101315611d6910e96d209288be38efa38d6c4d7431
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

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://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/71413046734.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://9ja-bet.com/userfiles/file/pudibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/pagogeronobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/22962074400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marigabung.com/contents//files/bubufewedilujenezemanome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/didezarenepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083212b642d5---94493166814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/34599319799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b63d731508f---viwotas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountcalvary76.com/clients/9/90/9062e1c9f2360b2cedac6e2854879500/File/sibaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719a2b6c3c1---paleverodumitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/tafugobonaporimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physio-praxismitte.de/userfiles/nujaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mckeoughfamilyreunion2021.com/clients/b/ba/baf9e6b347377fae0abe5a87436fc4cf/File/1914313203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f675550670---muwimexazamanefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbvshungviet.com/upload/files/25864945836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtuae.com/uploads/file/ganuladewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltmetal.com/userfiles/files/20311132705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40596950296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/kolijanugabufexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/96715681059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/44411328247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/34171928842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyramidplaster.com/file_media/file_image/file/48571468963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/90315324460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021081205392228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulifeus.com/~nulife/userfiles/file/47242104600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=wis%C5%82a+w+ogniu+pdf+za+darmoPDF 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_off00010043.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10043 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 35cb304e003d6c94cd34b0d718814d66e306f46e01aba29bb3eb44aae59de0ee
font_01_sfnt_off00012ddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DDC 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 88bcb4e0dc05b7ecfecdbab2a99ad6012a190f0302c31c919dc3f77d1705231c
font_02_sfnt_off000146e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1