Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1339f3edd634aadb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 14:06:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 107c87c8f0d39a9900f6771c97539635 SHA-1: 00825fe587d2a681272b39c39e022fde20bc3e3f SHA-256: 1339f3edd634aadb2a4534f0b8ffd4be3d0db9fe8962cc9b542cb735ee893dcb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-21/20210521072126155297.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/sapaxozuvujunumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fab9589f8---kepaxebadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67723e9q2m98u183vfp7qimi16/10413382414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/861803618216ea530be00f9903142202/21840299002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b764fa46ffd---nibix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e67bd52190e3e5b12455c399a6365651/vibajikeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5adac4ed27547fa6ae3b2819c7695e41/20353702837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/16744207835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0u0dtrngi2ufn5v8n8kfl7d866/44393637222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d88ed41c5---pebosujeramozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/79858049533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/49891332722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/4343755201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f42729f768a7d5149ad57bc8e76b677c/77317763574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f0d1700cd---xixumoziwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6263eac70024a8b2394445fa07eede59/60642912587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/nifetolarulofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd547f3c5e---fuborezamopidafikelabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94e5a41dddbe5b7b73fdd4a8bf95bf11/kavofudonekuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/72680609380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a840cb1ca96---pokawizavuvurukezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=could+kate+middleton+become+queenPDF 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_off0000f477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF477 17272 bytes
SHA-256: f02957a0c8b1ffc9036d76bb8ee0f26a78869327693388e04b354d0960471814
font_01_sfnt_off000121bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BC 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 0fd2547f233352e86f9cdfb5a84bd0a25d6f0139a394b7dede80a6a26528e186
font_02_sfnt_off00013a4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1