Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c65b31e19ea2c975…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:27:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: eb6dee3346854d6176d39009b8636f17 SHA-1: ed84b7bec9d22736f461ab1983afa7bd86429ac3 SHA-256: c65b31e19ea2c97578f3cffbf8dfdcebec9327d6ec3507d6b6d1efcef0897f1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is the attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adeufvind4t6akq6g25vktngg2/23256400598.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd1ecd6265f---66750266406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/dukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/95782518532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/70511569752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2d9376d460---sejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/99316410518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0194dc5b52---18030327403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbtech.kr/upfile/files/sewelokelamizotasebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milliondollardesiclub.com/upload_files/featured/files/18535706600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083242b17e2e---noduwali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872de2c45f7---44141353538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b836b349999---26964085196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da24697c6c---54617527328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21036872d7ed7f65e4a6520e859879b4/wizajuwerekewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c4723ce58---43685438685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee45649a6b---32987507102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13a7871e5da08bd052fa85b545c65cf2/17702247865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ae4eada34---96260397932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/51509559110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608434f30e917---xorulezazogefefevaxizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/85748686841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/ninopabematiruwokitabuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bf50b02d2f5592fc782658524ee3716/37864048172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=about+amedeo+avogadroPDF 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_off0000fc9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9D 19632 bytes
SHA-256: a03907af528b19031eae3344189637d61e5662b9658eea3bc0fe2697fda3201a
font_01_sfnt_off00012b94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B94 10468 bytes
SHA-256: d91b2a4e769a9c1e20d5c82e9056e558d452fce7e1e788dc48bdddc93afd81d2
font_02_sfnt_off0001433a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1433A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1