Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 130f3d43509788ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-29 05:09:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dfcf91d4c5b6b13b45ea7d1f673945b6 SHA-1: b58e80957501fa720168285316aecf701098dc2c SHA-256: 130f3d43509788ee213647512f5c5538d71db8b975b7810a5170bd5ec7e96601
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, a technique often used to obscure malicious destinations and evade detection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of link farms and external URLs suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oincsh47pvgr7n0vdq61hjna3e/18655798612.pdf
    • http://pilatesmystyle.com/userfiles/files/nopinarexufuz.pdf
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/34053603430.pdf
    • http://atletika-pardubice.cz/files/file/baresel.pdf
    • https://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/3887229993.pdf
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/141709245282.pdf
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/rezogokomevowetubesize.pdf
    • http://kngsm.in/userfiles/file/12358297969.pdf
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/60675950436.pdf
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88663794387.pdf
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/75014484594.pdf
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///sekerokunopibebivitiw.pdf
    • http://ymmicro.com/files/files/7440542723.pdf
    • http://sarljarry.com/userfiles/file/39938045078.pdf
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/wubasi.pdf
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/65063342256.pdf
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/36419754309.pdf
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/bipomexazoradun.pdf
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f87ab0f5ff---47761631721.pdf
    • https://conexus-study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/rolaviweluxa.pdf
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/luzopozebibiwopadoboves.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fd86a89f6---livudefeluluxulunetup.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c9d968d3969254494e6d115f05a28df/vopusu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=upgrading+games+android
    • 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_off0000afa3.bin
c769e0ec5a237fdb268499aa1838b92530d69b8183164d643833f85e6fd2f9c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFA3 16660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d986.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD986 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f19d.bin
010165b97311314017f647fbb6689f390cf2de95e1613a4a969508119effb0bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19D 10600 bytes