Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1329405476dc40e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 21:46:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: c0a6c72d063ee2f199e4130f906b05a4 SHA-1: 7a015dd2da65d1909de91bade193c50adda350bb SHA-256: 1329405476dc40e339dafed8b619af41d302284810d8f57acf5c9d2c526d66fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to online streaming, likely a lure to entice users to click the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shootout+at+wadala+online+streaming PDF link annotation
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/98561884108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aafb0d58e9---41350398951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89e16e9e54a47e8230f98f2339a5959f/xefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/pojivopunamixepefasujeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/41836019126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehigh86.com/clients/13680/File/sizitotarixewuvudaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0030374c4b---wodoleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/7558767099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d68c4e7a6b---lidopawabanebakami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be1c777bdd900cdc86e63db916f5598/zolavadixikifinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076459e0460c---pubonikasibab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/pemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410548a414ff54f32c6165fdfbcd5933/wutoxonuwalefiwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2417581a7e248735cb7f541365f6f995/98506896038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fd5a23cac---ruwitafobuxagoroverago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ef3cc52f7---70459673125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c38fe33a0a---gulurugosilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD131 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 4e0a636172d926df217dc95f3a048f43d7cdf96094c816f6c749578fc4debd3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e38d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE38D 11364 bytes
SHA-256: b05f2a2302e54c93a133f8ceafb2ffb9faab2c5efce94c3071a8f4c8453da9c7
font_02_sfnt_off00010a43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A43 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 6e3fbd491d8b71441998836ddca0d0c102716a221ea14f8143929167ad9a79b3