Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13de8e94730b26b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e3774f77f99f5702ca9f8e3ca17a60ea SHA-1: 30d8c7a5890a4170877a20b53bef20a4c8312361 SHA-256: 13de8e94730b26b7852712f853e00203c3fb738cf8a4473dc40b260318449baf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable domains and compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/lijumanevifi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd692082762---31731371132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/34341028048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95429232801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9b5519f7ecf1fcfa8e2e148393609f7/34396454861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae82991f05---ganolomurapemabujepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mankatomnclassof71.com/clients/e/e0/e0e8961458839910853a12af65841b27/File/revelufafijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uj5oadv1ljg3e77d1chu2sg7s7/17334059849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/68993953810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/76182872399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/jizogaruje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adf8c579d9---24070502705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekr2pl7quq7iuqdg48dci5udk1/67165897369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608996f0be6fc---65713850598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/50993462226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/25275740007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a1d6f0110---sefedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca5c0068f5---43025002234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b441c4bff2744bc611c437b88d2c83a/bekokenimewititokewabolus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgvk774jt1vime21i7d3ule74r/zaxegolibavalitosiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kzlo.pl/fotki/fotki/file/sixite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/2314009468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b08a7713d---54628891661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4e2abcd3ee168773d90969533c6b18b/82469887503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/pimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b744bd71e---febubitetarutaxesebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=different+ethernet+cat+typesPDF 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_off0001091b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091B 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 109c2c5b36da78039ccf506307ce8bc22f9d93216ebc88f03ee6fd63a314a02b
font_01_sfnt_off0001210f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1210F 18588 bytes
SHA-256: 677cf44493886e67d028a1a459e5cc539eb9a4048358ce04f2dc813fbe443efc
font_02_sfnt_off0001524a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1524A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1