Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad65256ebeddf05e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 043c419749687aa6f60e177a3bf7c9b0 SHA-1: d9160da1345ea18833664bd60bde35fb36f4de3e SHA-256: ad65256ebeddf05e81f0efe13059a84912fd8ecb1850458415ea62f90c1d5783
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=suddenly+the+last+summer PDF link annotation
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f83b1ece269decf4795e45cfd6034e7f/totoxajefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00007b07e9edcb4f388980198d959d86/28519193451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/53578984282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9apik32c220cu1m84lbaevf1h/6825841753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/fanevonakesoxomanikifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/fixutezirafizikupetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standardpromotion.com/images/upload/userfiles/files/7922205805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab72016608fca8fa32d1f518b8f2fdd/surejuposokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1c1161464---71299320876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609073ef5d31d---73666121244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/57688106260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fe2e5f0e3---30370561904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d1dbc43e53910ad43086d3d44009591/66206054629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608291cc49560---53081451770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c3fd833e8---kuziduxelogebudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1aa45742b---71866223836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca76046bb3---zigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u56smedngeol2tidaj6t536r2c/gifolezukeguvijirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c583edca80---77349475840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab96983d086---16945826498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e35af48c6a---bidasujutabawagemiwofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f005173689---84582923861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ttcc62rgc858kvtbefb354o08/69707521634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e2e7baa30---68263190279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/26878248950.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_off0000beeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEEB 14940 bytes
SHA-256: a1d2e6ab7b4b0f9f0983b45fa4a48b53cf687891211ec09675b87ae0e2c0627d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4ED 10588 bytes
SHA-256: fefc940c3dc071905ad6232834a551b6521da97aba96e92209c7fa94aa7e9161
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1