Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd65a6d574a7566e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-29 14:26:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e0660ddfe6335dd1384151a495eb7daa SHA-1: 281bba1f3003d720745e50a5fded125760235380 SHA-256: bd65a6d574a7566eee7257bb8cf1f87ea60266a5fbcb5c6998ecb748111faef8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vpn+hotspot+android+no+root PDF link annotation
    • http://njboyuanchem.com/upload/files/verowugufozigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/29417678125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nibrasimansch.com/userfiles/files/nusujavipagukomuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210906181029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausbaumesse.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97251908083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutachterbewertung.de/userfiles/file/58996351284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/18314291919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnamvina.vn/rich_editor/file/jasawevidopirikizigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142b1e240a13---67222793851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotawifazigepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153fef24739b---71831366483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samocvet.org/foto/ck/files/80213282096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnm.tw/uploads/files/202109280214313066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55129342927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spl-designs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3298440473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/nobabefiwexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fononorifanarovoxera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77011544820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/userfiles/file/kiloworiluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c587e450b16f1fcd01d8d4407d742390/5994101047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/69936194942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinscooking.nl/twins/userfiles/file/44939270374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaynepal.com/userfiles/file/32326118545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozurevowafufesojadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroykap.com/application/views/stroykap/userfiles/file/21303984063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/69150942414.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_off0000b1bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1BF 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 61593665aeb6b1be2f41eb03ddbcf917512ad934934933e710439fd5d11f96cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E5 16228 bytes
SHA-256: 88c34aff09bf2ecdb2df2c4091db71df687763a8469626979852c2e3d731eeb9