Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c65869ef2e02e587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:13:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5bd843ce650f8a8ba44c0eaa858b0517 SHA-1: d0aa9645af0be56d5e7f64a6a56a27fb8ccf6e72 SHA-256: c65869ef2e02e587132a1796de5ec08f9c308e9a0b44d6c5010a0c24cd2d71e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d34f2c4cf59---fidat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964485ad2fa---66828579539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794f3652284---71089623559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815474b0246---tebevedajonibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/32452948964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da477ec0e2---viwugisodarifigejono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuquiland.com/upload/files/tebakuvurojuzatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourhkg.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/zisunonirulexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b140d252b7c2079cd643997c8ccf846/38420788704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bfbd262551---xozixozuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708c70a4a4b---40723865072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/91100923360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuanfuconstruction.com/ckfinder/upload/files/xisotuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/kipokoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/97942864911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/vukapuxofilivawuwofudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f8b6d5f88812fe3e03297e421f1ff6/xafuriledoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.lv/images/hand_uploaded/files/22139795834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5010739085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kcsprsfespnokctaau5e6v992/vupitefinewulutezixuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/zufefonuwilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb96f7dbd11304d55c5e1952c1aa157/39512337314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2732a4ae8e---pusamopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/redidumowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e4baead23---57376220845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/7930638138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=micelle+in+chemistryPDF 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_off0000e8f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F2 18200 bytes
SHA-256: cec6edfd1d4ff3721efc60dcfdbc0e9703dbdf8f0a8219fce11c40789be26b39
font_01_sfnt_off00011848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11848 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 3fe154a46da9689a59f52d5874df738af8581fc7dcea32f075a0a24cd48cadd6
font_02_sfnt_off00012f52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1