Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13815c80bd4709e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 21:57:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 629c6e4f30b5fd8ebf6272e2b7090edd SHA-1: e9566716eb2e10c61b929d8323ccb6406c8f92fe SHA-256: 13815c80bd4709e9590f4296f417c735690a2116731ad12b18b4e188d213a65e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user interactions, common in phishing or malicious redirection schemes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+desire+tabs PDF link annotation
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/94840698085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/22346268927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/47808999802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_8E83603234F4135B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ce485bca36153407b68e2d8179df237/5097156917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbrasoftware.hu/images/uploads/files/selajewidadumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4d6d07ef91dd6a00d836765865c4d2/56871236833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezamirekhaseafoods.com/userfiles/file/legaxizavimer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/99875419649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://855solution.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/kaxelemizogugotexodeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac04e01a7d---wesogovakivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raxumamodejilekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/22336281172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161382ec032a5a---kirodefafebedunukizafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///75410293648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubijaludumagijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/21947776665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161460af6f2148---22215891520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zilalcooling.com/other_files/File/muxagofofofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/2731230503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd19facfde---zojoxuvifoluriza.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_off0000c15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC15D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96F 18344 bytes
SHA-256: f0ee6900551e94da152023273b549a578f46819c50a2d1edd94ae44999310c07
font_02_sfnt_off000109b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B6 10240 bytes
SHA-256: c3ed37c3fa1ac7e1eacd6931678a9b64a59453687124fb5d39b4c704ff3535be