Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e65cb58306bf9bbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-08-26 06:59:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3401e6676cc111b88b3659a3511cfb24 SHA-1: 5a22bef1838a671cc31bfeae21f5e7ec89bfcab8 SHA-256: e65cb58306bf9bbfbcfa0851afe923f3ccfe9970c993b0f65fa33e0aaddf71c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it functions as a phishing or redirection mechanism, aligning with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ca2a56454f3498a202c02d085aaa91b/89559010244.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/3036567158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponapazulinodipateno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210714114952_1199099170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorsexpress.biz/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/papobomunaluvoxiwonobuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1105cfc3f223f3f709fa5fed1604b49b/33048952369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/75888131817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/ponewadepetazomamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kinoteatr.ru/sadm_files/gilegalogupewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117c5c82a1e2---30784394863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuanhongkhang.com/upload/files/35497180064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210811081406_zfwmym.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/dizubozifesibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a61ebf9c5ef58ed0ff9c2b5463c5d1/12091719426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reclamesticker.nl/images/uploads/file/In PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/zazakuzojodaterugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/94485754915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/wudusexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiwum.wyryki.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69596694575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/44421066285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibrahimkoc.com/images/Media/files/goxegonulufisatunapiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4b18c8c45---77291150878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b68867591b20dba59f479aa068bb3321/lasateripunukuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/buboponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1fffad52fb9e817fca84b2cbabc7c9/65916056206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+adventures+of+buzz+lightyear+of+star+commandPDF 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_off0001125f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1125F 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 8da8b920a94836fb6748cd22300b08942aa7e4d37fbdcfde09e1830f10118224
font_01_sfnt_off00012ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000144e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E1 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 3bea08525f59b4ad673ee9c0e28bb8020fb97f3a0c709c4951c7bca17940ee33