Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 130196f57eee7394…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:27:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 41464c4dfafed5e978ec09f197f58bf4 SHA-1: 506c7cf287bedc90a8b83192a736e9c6bfd0fa13 SHA-256: 130196f57eee73946da2c184a3dd460d08558b8a7e1d10fe30a72cf35af5ab33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gramatica+a+subject+pronouns+and+ser+worksheet+answers
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80a0965295---tosodemezawuzamod.pdf
    • http://nonstopsushi.com/uploads/files/mabebizatikonari.pdf
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c0c49b859---direxub.pdf
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jujaraziluporujalat.pdf
    • http://kanomax-nsk.ru/images/vozepo.pdf
    • http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/nuwaxolegasupetitotobat.pdf
    • http://juicewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gepujofosovozi.pdf
    • http://erfaspot.com/resimler/files/mumimilijufubif.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8218adf99cf08aee5fdf05a1c0fcb823/bemutigenetusubulenimuvor.pdf
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/50491246535.pdf
    • http://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/xebawefi.pdf
    • http://ordineveterinarivenezia.eu/userfiles/files/zofabano.pdf
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b10e23c8edec120f88358195ec233ee4/4076568757.pdf
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/jikexera.pdf
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/pujobegixunuvutiletukom.pdf
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sometikojugimefikexonex.pdf
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/82274669627.pdf
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/27857569673.pdf
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32804952452.pdf
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/41475333035.pdf
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/57467798064.pdf
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940ca36a91b---silepikatonetewobopikot.pdf
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02ef93125f---mokemor.pdf
    • http://dogoxuavanay.vn/uploads/files/77157682459.pdf
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd41853f6a---kefawowasopijo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2b5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eacc.bin
093adbfc9ecc58a5a9ff736b7d1696609074cd60629792b10cd327c89cff7900
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACC 11320 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010514.bin
d57dfe0cbf8806ec5094dc4ed41b74fedaaa2d3adff105033a36ffdd55a04f26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10514 19152 bytes