Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f65d405871b60abb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-08-03 00:23:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d0395447f43f8ee83230a4603562a2e7 SHA-1: f9c406653db571a6dc0f6e3b31b298a80b3c4f5c SHA-256: f65d405871b60abb41c8767316af9dd84f07a86bc9b98b0ce6d83095c717333d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous PDF links and UTM parameters suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/22881896324.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/18563704535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee8ace0e94933f17e0c363284b92d773/duvezakabogatefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95907906419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859d5ac5aad---12375586077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d844b2dfb---figovisawefejoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/gibasemapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d1d8d89ccde6172a6682b1486623506/55691744331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f2765d88c---71441573061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e71e83ff7---tokalumekapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hevolta.com/upload/file/jebevipuboxetewojikabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquarell.ro/userfiles/file/39922387124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ql87engjmtiph748k60k4cc623/60950936253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srub-servis.ru/userfiles/file/28915797714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/bexiputonusojiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc16de7929---tokebekipomoguvizutawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/82723740389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/rujobiwawajufuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6vppink879uq8pda92p53hd1n/zogafevixirasepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/pevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/23825816791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbaeff95380---50039883734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/34653766457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a368b712bad---23409677244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04575d193f53197077988419a0246aa8/nugefujutojanopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a69b2363bb---nadigimavopetukazale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mera+bhola+hai+bhandari+download+mp3+dj+kingPDF 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_off0000c490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC490 16428 bytes
SHA-256: 326be873c5d559e313bccd433afd2b9402615f77662da84bbf1e18a62b6e354d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF70 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 9ec9f3a45da3cac9b1d5e35b60f2744a8eb41e11edb2474938aeb2c8f313614e
font_02_sfnt_off000108f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1