Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13422a6a00a5f289…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b566241bf883444f07b21c54a83b6462 SHA-1: 7c6b5d29b5e04245c7aed1306709ba0c2b8e159b SHA-256: 13422a6a00a5f289b1c4ca4a4a7b0535da8586c8ca8587e8ea042e40449a586e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the 'link farm' heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users, potentially via JavaScript if the PDF were to be rendered in a vulnerable viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+u+transfer+contacts+from+android+to+iphone PDF link annotation
    • https://spirit-legend-enterprises.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/22496788251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/notimubiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/44163075025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210916185444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/kutevunuveluwuxufirodug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petikdaun.com/contents/files/nomudabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161435de237379---2592923048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/28434635230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210903005353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f5664fa7813db6a847735cca6ceda7/90214843662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/notasilagaxozefevomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/31249582229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/zafugobafibufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1c02b731ndjmfquo95deu562c/85597440073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/visasamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vt2bs0cci1i9a5hq0644tvuqbb/duduvubuzivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_23C32F55CA9F7B35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/lirusavefidixumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementyzlaczne.pl/media/file/sezutiwironaregu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/disagasasajoropij.pdfIn 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://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_off0000be07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE07 11016 bytes
SHA-256: dd8582433a09b6b70b1b3bc50d2554007fd530494d439d1397fe38285f9f1cf5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD777 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF89 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 41b067c8d40aea2269faa8b5667d7d2547b6b31823a8605567ec213bfa003024