Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e65715066493f3bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:55:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 65734b62f5b4436d5bab6d03edc5712e SHA-1: d3dd5b7ba595668535d1d3a3dfb25e92af191a38 SHA-256: e65715066493f3bc5901cd144a21124b2180c93b586eac843aa8ca7a553e35fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. This structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9054144781.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/sunopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/79174823251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6ko8j9g24a5939nfo0a3s4ic7/55415591295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725d3f611d6---68547899408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f4ce068c8065e50f17484223812fbc1/44389859974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vilnk444a5ffiqp2clmuoiu4me/bemufokobik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1c0f1085c---ritosunemulopazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210605_090356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cee999e0914---motop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c949aaf58abeefefa25041753a3f6d0c/99311955796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/safodevefewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10cse60f79pl2cguvhqfbu3ce5/49786840265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0db22f3f0a---ketimowubadufubinisawuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/jimivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//23721758899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24db2f7a10f63455dc73253da56225b5/giwemupufowevidevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a740e83d7---89551373328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/847ea227777390b5853638cf73a9293b/73108229917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee97937f03c7f4ca7f4c16cd78a8e06/34092011437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raisemoneyonline.org/clients/6/69/691275cf9a36cab982b2498ebdc715be/File/jukabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c5f1ce319a7999141d30f6cc7fbcc5d/lanolojelapuruwozobeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/4185654624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b4c5a4d3c5e1db5b8fc8d0afa0de10/kedobaxewamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f69df1224f18f4500a6df81400bc9ad6/dozalikolulozosezeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c8c8cf33c---7276358819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=number+of+polio+cases+in+2019PDF 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_off0000f7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A2 11220 bytes
SHA-256: ab1e492947bdea846bd25d5a7919b1851c211c57e0cf28026d262f41f09323d2
font_01_sfnt_off000111bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BB 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 93f10c3215e9d54b7a53ef3da64dc26156981a71ba3cbea27c0db77972781bb3
font_02_sfnt_off000140a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1