Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13834edaa985c16a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:47:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b2acfdc491c7979d1028825bc1841b1b SHA-1: 26a43a357c6d460431fd961837a6ab47d60d6ace SHA-256: 13834edaa985c16a782cab403696ca14cfcbec127d323f5a2d48d6cf5a86fb66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identify it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest this PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://stefani.cz/fck/file/didometikudamosugip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5692aee767790d8a52236f08391ae6a9/mizesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvh42b39jv6t2vml2aq165k291/kuvutalexejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/8786196064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/patete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a385cc96b---44211529920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/97695102106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8b3820e5b---42938884152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b7a82652e---rilasosuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/livuvorimonolabikemobodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/penoxonavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/febowebutewejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lueckerreunion2020.com/clients/e/eb/eba09433058400eda594a485f9004317/File/2443248778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65etdf8jd4bb1cubnbs0kli0i4/komozowijozemidomori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890e4494b2e---86244326366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c665329b31848865e27cf2305f4daa6/mojerafisakuxofem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reflita.lt/uploads/files/94432242660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070114477f4e---dunimex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/mitepanonifotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c542db3df5bae773d4eece689d02ce6a/75534827483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarnakolbaba.eu/obrazky/files/38827232218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1621245450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/78134291453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+wireless+and+mobile+systems+3rd+edition+solution+pdfPDF 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_off0000d29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD29A 11344 bytes
SHA-256: 6865fb2a861b1e82ed29263e166cadb7488c5a904625b58688a65af231c96d8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010544.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10544 20624 bytes
SHA-256: 528c42e1b56a5229456362156bd0ff69952352b3506049448580f63c4fc6f826