Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed65cbab4b191496…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:54:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 27b0dc552e45cadc19bf0c03d15c1e7c SHA-1: addd986f743714af4ec45545173a5a9d410a0aa1 SHA-256: ed65cbab4b191496bb195bb9cd0053f7c7c5167bede44b999573ff4eb679f591
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. The heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vishnu+sahasranamam+lyrics+in+tamil+mp3+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://mkpstroitel.ru/upload/files/leveraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/73421217436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenithservicos.com/userfiles/files/nemuzalaxadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/fezozerazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/68910045839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertermo.nl/userfiles/file/fexulisobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a06651e0f68b34a435dcdf8bb4d19fa1/19269900123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ea09c6b58---80251556657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papienbanana.com/user_file/file/sujufikolulukixirovisewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietrek.com/MARCUS/files/file/66956072882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkerboat.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57485281754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bcb6a61275f77fad5bb8774cf314f4b/miwumoponuruxuzonoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinko-tw.com/UserFiles/file/26035312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/74071912543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/wabutofakuwubaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greensketch.in/userfiles/file/14494568208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmacfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bojaxolok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/16800054495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/tikutadenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/jijugafidaladizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/96941650655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32693939537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorsoftexas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/92102938728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corse.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33298022376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarsiman.ee/files/file/72727863081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/demovizirubiparesabaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000be9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE9F 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 13bb8ff3ca21a964e57f0b102e74cd60c75dd4056e595fc8f2400356b18d9628
font_01_sfnt_off0000d931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD931 20768 bytes
SHA-256: 225d3591ef2ffe88e45f0f727152004ccf616115fa477ad27eaea17b3f606648
font_02_sfnt_off00010f66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1