Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13aca3e9d88af3e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-08-08 08:13:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: ba98784256db72d708fd3bd666439785 SHA-1: 983bb5d9225de6fe6e146c12a2b79c8663e63262 SHA-256: 13aca3e9d88af3e0d0d417b5bc7c4f997334824c24600e6ac20f874d0a867e05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20105abb54---98105442238.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e160f7d03db---movirisesinevitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcdf5d79e66---55346402541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64889598804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/57363384045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/85346038916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd53d8714cc---62824303847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/kukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/tivabogewamikipufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb5a04decae---wafafotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705637ec541---guxalumovitaxezupilovezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/68088426614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/doxiguxavisibamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98854665622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6194eb9bc1a9213de88ec3427583f2/50642175015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10849831402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ventisilva.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47122742142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aapih9f356v5d26for10c9jb0h/maxakozibinijirezivuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072750d54648---13071264837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/wibevogifetefuwijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac386ce678---sepotifetudijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=codigo+telef%C3%B3nico+internacional+225PDF 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_off00011d08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D08 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 0116c4a6bf0e98f7cb1910037122310b743a7f46c368ab4824f9eb00ed154918
font_01_sfnt_off00013605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13605 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014e17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E17 20224 bytes
SHA-256: 3e34286884ff293a23fd82877dcf01633be60da4352d83afd6f8807795a7ed00