Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a665358ba874c7e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:25:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8ad09ad922c0abe82571796350108e60 SHA-1: 945f427bfd8558c55c207e0b149916dbcae94cfd SHA-256: a665358ba874c7e850ed0b3ed18280f455b2f6d87a11ab95a3c9db84e9d55dcc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This suggests a link farm or phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ea6647386---tesabiguxabatoxuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d34515ea6b---kafejobuzibavuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608955e261939---wozusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/rizuwidimirevira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/zesefonisixiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/vudaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abarappresentanze.it/userfiles/files/gevexudazizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaofangpeixun.com/upload/files/87971787265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/xafaninesabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/jaworifuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b48e17eddc8e21bead9b98fc39e9f340/66159069251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c5ed7f682dfded0603dae892c54c852/wujezoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/86460956831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/seled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/44814131695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/nutiwejirigim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/85198990227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/56043250682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609145f057a36---sujuvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/18056198093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/motever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/manubovagubaxiweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djecijagarderoba.me/userfiles/file/93048099110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=lessons+of+21st+centuryPDF 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_off000101d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000119e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E3 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 84d91d9962ffed4c939b8ad84590b4d75d646bfd565bcb357eb569173f3aca9f
font_02_sfnt_off0001488f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1488F 10372 bytes
SHA-256: b24acec32a46c80eb3cf768a54287878da44115fe4f0e4c297e61cb5f41fb86b