Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 513164de0692b95e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 19:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4a28e4d2283b9b20cc1364c53e1c5f07 SHA-1: 2c8e9b3646768b376e24da8e32d708ae28cf77f0 SHA-256: 513164de0692b95ef407fa06cff74f2472d118168f358ac297b2b14f92add90f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of a 'utm_term' parameter in one of the URLs suggests a potential phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=after+effects+2020+mac+crack PDF link annotation
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/40557897100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/9339810803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3533653901747fabbd36cb0c83a1bd3a/didepovotokiguwotowipovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8870a99f4c1c939dec96e898d5d12b9/2717641467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs89reunion.com/clients/77823/File/murezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/pelafefobil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26680e561803ac1c060132962a224257/zesegesevokijazawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/5512455899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608593995cf84---31328062856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/89688995041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfo2em74kdebsk7ddchqnal3h1/36038160385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607068e31d0d2---77170719400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a9f7647c1254665d037e6a9f276fbb/dokijolipulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7df982f3f---xuvakula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85a8c14f4---bamegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65243c3faf718c26bc8c72ff87451aaa/6831975601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5287f7762c---sinovejofofavane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bdc88ba77---bawajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4afa07816c---66232273116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dce1a1cd53e919e8c3f891254cd176d3/24048622628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608793def2d33---tumodatekikixejubexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082da560e456---9683593665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d2d980b4ce6c50e4511ed9a2250d60f/gijopezoxipumuxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/zomofegevanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795e1d6db0b---75822533598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c215472aa7d5206edb4d4bbf4c3f52/76225458235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ed9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B3 10452 bytes
SHA-256: f87b817f545b0a21a9780823ac89ad1bb179e561332667aee27748ccca9e7d3d
font_02_sfnt_off00011da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA4 17280 bytes
SHA-256: b523456f672d063e7e9ec53f14b31415c54c8f7cbfa7b05a87551afee3277fa9