Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13061d29264ff217…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:11:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 90b769ad1e3403aad3bfd30021701c6d SHA-1: 3a5694272975c8b8c5b35efef45293c40edb3e07 SHA-256: 13061d29264ff217387050a6139ecedbfe542d9c12035014d9bcbe5e1b819bc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies on the URL heuristics and detections.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836ae9a93a2---motazajosupukawexukezib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ijkj25tdkmr6hcj4ub5uvtb1mo/30063479542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tarubc7t39qci5ef5ooi4n9d8/nidewedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dn4bhf2dj4601e3nucuggsamf/zapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/rasenawuzaniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d62495ec4ec56639734d03a25f42025/33050408596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608382576bdb7---18234012441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad45e48429---89259035805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ce48c8e15---52906129728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb28f6cf8bc2d3e4fe26881eac96df54/19051755615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/putevaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb6fa17c8242532e4410b06f58caa3a6/81026188916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9101026332fe3dfab69118acc87a33/sepurikapudorituruval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a5cca9520f7f0971fa04dd6f9ec470e/97783172212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078897085329---xuresexirewalivojafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/905890c2d6243283fad2c1fe0da63b48/defupudolur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/jisubofuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/wegikelaxetixaxojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7aaa1d587b99f46d9fde12e97692700/6431369483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clase86marista.com/clients/25276/File/95789428340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/zimepaxojowebesabibisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=long+word+formationPDF 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_off0000e798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE798 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 5b562c541fa3d5247d876d5121a7c1233185cb8b2f5cb513f71e50866e018ea8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE9 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 78be2c3b6be4075306197cb3be87349283c07f19c578b1d5e5db1b7050610ca1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1