Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1513300fc945d898…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: acf28676dda035c7b909cc13d873cbc2 SHA-1: 452b894a17da4c6715677ec0b1bad79577021340 SHA-256: 1513300fc945d898a99e7cec681e792832d38e00191b20895c0d9aa6ef73decc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/xilelunudakobed.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0be5d0aeeae4cb7b356af6037dff47/14594711898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/4508727177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-21/20210621083047284519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///20792957483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfffa309877fecd1f622f072129f7f1e/bagoburevozarisewajuzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/544507566f88b619168c5841f9b495a9/54475362202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/99746466482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blindnow.com/userfiles/file/zemaseweregupakuzeferoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/kebuwowadepigemugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62b95053cb---4055400269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1s2lb5jaduh64ls834q4rucfpu/40966232024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/xujukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16220027240746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/39480227303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95298655093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0ae3c187bae640b312d7cccc513f8f9/84614069241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a010b3632cc---93114774564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d03aeb4ba---27492802687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c6c01ce3---lojetunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4f16fc1bb6---sovisuwetaxibazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004dd43f66735cdce80642baadc5dba9/71299088572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152fea5dfb30dd2f8c4c89b3bfcf0bbe/57141974430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/lolitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607623283dbfd---99390088118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=when+to+use+estar+and+serPDF 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_off0000f1bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BB 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 0c3df7f514a1cf06d3a57fae32ae4af5310e852b2498fd28e344b0685d7e4a7d
font_01_sfnt_off000108ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108ED 18448 bytes
SHA-256: 61b01e70426bc54c4072d5596bff092fdac136f0e353fd73838eb73fa181503f
font_02_sfnt_off000137c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1