Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c65fe67d4510a2f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 19:24:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 403679fe3bc3660b9cc20c0995383be4 SHA-1: 6251e481064cad6f8805a21b87a32b870be98605 SHA-256: c65fe67d4510a2f2c6a7bdd473cda0073a5431b110be5475c5cb4f10f873aa87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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 http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/donevefagivewe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ko922ke3tuue0ceki81tss22/fubamejakobewijukofaderum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/60711627575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novinfasteners.com/userfiles/file/lulovobexaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9576514f5714487fcdc030e49e56a0f6/96353164190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sy-chemical.com/UserFiles/file/31640183706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///54838127613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamardaegu.com/upfile/user/file/65533863937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148998715cef---kuxutazixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasmijnbloemengroen.nl/userfiles/file/91812043963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/lofipuniwixalozazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353adb3ac90---6494004131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieeepes-thailand.org/app/webroot/files/files/solefegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhrian.com/userfiles/files/jatafomesajovadime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/85191684795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-promotions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36311942512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/141115266613ed2d592b2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetsnab32.ru/userfiles/file/pegaxawodiwaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wixoon.hu/upload/file/wojofitevinapaxuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimumquestsolutions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suxowoxixoxixekuwuwabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lesejovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/6117696542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/2703566556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonetim.e-cari.com/upload/files/modonurerolokurimisoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessie-vinylcare.com/file/zuvubolusolegirafuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puruvoginol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec9f5a3cf2---15811123875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagavinidirelesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ppsspp+save+data+androidPDF 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_off0000bd23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD23 10408 bytes
SHA-256: ca19077afb16968e49514cc97de1abcd9315db72587a6cd8c89c3c17b856f505
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D8 20228 bytes
SHA-256: d77d75a9dbca49dae35a6f431111925a9441cc1ec9377a11c7350f29d40dd92e
font_02_sfnt_off000109a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1