Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 513287dfe6f8b2f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:59:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fcea518731438c1c16ad64f88127c4dd SHA-1: 33ea946c91fcc45afe3563df5171a4a33bd239d1 SHA-256: 513287dfe6f8b2f266b87b28d821c142d13cc90bf11d6bce13b47ee1f41fa4ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised WordPress upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is not informational but rather to facilitate malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hstfrj237utsrvjop8tg4c6sfr/98623560160.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607049862300f---59512341237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6701et7fjcm3k2mpepk5bbuqk7/18454113488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/58336970343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goergenpainting.com/clients/0/0d/0d1038892961fdbf96b6a8e7e8daca8f/File/24504850693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/taziwefanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/lomubazejafusirepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/kukivefororukavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/gipuvujevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/moxubatafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/88382458791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/refivudirulesimulafizoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/gavumijevonamabewuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdaef83cf1---44482133526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/pewijiwagenotorozuludarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pjchg173kgvos6bhsb4hf2tsq/korer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leifs-auto.dk/images/file/60764328903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021060123060373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/jugovuliriwegeboruzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/54096106084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divyabodhanam.org/userfiles/file/vevubawufamutonifubara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/47356677339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ebb7b901f120121ab98dd8aff6c3cf7/96079167479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/ci/userfiles/files/64368094066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0edb4e119805eb83f3a55449d09e83ac/jizodadabotoluvanoreji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/69155377980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ocean+passages+of+the+world+pdfPDF 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_off0000e823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE823 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 67f9b87854de309cdb411e45c1a1e482d363f6756690e05279985ba9439042de
font_01_sfnt_off00010147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10147 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 5d713934bb2f2f1e8982b9454b3c890a799af33f69489c162513407f7f6854ce
font_02_sfnt_off000131b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1