Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13895507171bcdeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-06-24 14:44:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6114f75a345298a62721e5322a6b386f SHA-1: 11d148c4fd5a2b2ee75cc8872dba65625f1624ce SHA-256: 13895507171bcdebc5e26a62d546f8df6d25fc477309ea5c791a1a991d651abc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or exploit kits. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

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://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2740899e9f36f5026102286a5645910/ruzadipixeliporokemig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op5fedfl87826156e7l11tagib/9556256500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/runimapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/47840504661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gofaxuliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021061901032573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902deaefdd7---80729016213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9879d390b1---dadasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/purisewezon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608722eb607e9---lerakogusizeluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0daafjrdml3i5dl6tfcd8kvsuj/20447395289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/fofemujagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da0fdd14eeb396a25791827717e078bb/41832044028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073253c1f8cd---lajovunejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/dezazobazeboderumujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=previous+year+iit+jam+chemistry+question+paperPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d93c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93C 5504 bytes
SHA-256: ddc5086607d13f1c829b1402653b8dc6a5db9ad53c5130d884ebdabacfbc02dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE2 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 8e254a606788245a88c1f7c2b98f791f939a6835729a401f1c6016e144c22064