Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 131937bdbadd108a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:36:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 598f51b614fe91a0768bb0fc238e34c0 SHA-1: 60e71920ed60409db6f5f7795151839c1eb84e26 SHA-256: 131937bdbadd108a472699ed149834c9c13593d416ff53b72e94f11953595817
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd4b99a6e4---34298985430.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ade67fe6c28a3e962c1f112681ef46e3/satizatojabubexakimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lhnq7qnuqm8imvbliohmda6mg/70813190796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/danodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae46599b602844331d2e5880e6670c1f/65288115079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92838166823bd16b954c4c053adb0a37/66977747674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a63422a51---17652862026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personnelstrategies.net/userfiles/file/bomidemodoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6be5029f83---dadifebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8aed089da240817b594fbea16d03224/pebovarojopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76824277ec66386590133c737134e5e4/81757188898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eced8ef265f299f9fbaca0894926818/96918823805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/zakewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/wirinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/pokesona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/18221366058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080362a2674f---lizatofutiguzodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/900e8b84a7e1cb54823770cab23520f8/13138115677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ol9tf8gtvtc4qiennh7a2cmsu1/tizevipimexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/72758261857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11ca3c5287b17d028bc93564e799bd23/bejepowinede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/49904335140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0sf0ki180dpust5en5d6pds8l/28643773136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/zusidudoguvetenejasedugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=long+division+with+2+digit+divisorsPDF 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_off0000d779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD779 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 2a1ae34bc7463cde38a03dcccf816feaded7fd4d727fcc60bf23eb64667e5788
font_01_sfnt_off000102cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CF 10416 bytes
SHA-256: c2f03a69bedf3d5e691fa9353dec581a957c2f378108531fd22eea2103608699
font_02_sfnt_off00011a3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1