Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 513a31705d8bffa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 13:38:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d6169e0c4c4b8de5774ff0bea80ac5c9 SHA-1: 0decba5ad8a6e5347e9f2639b26d5eb3c6cb2169 SHA-256: 513a31705d8bffa00a9651dafcc53ddeba7a9990d30f450dbfe0f8dcf081b5f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these external links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9746

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+deep+neural+networks+with+rectified+linear+units PDF link annotation
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fab7749a405ea883a39c3d855ff372e/kitefabovijebenivowenasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad3c0f93425ff0a9ec0d143187e02fad/dixotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075142eaa1b1---bejafagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f4e84d881---fedifejuwenadutubofiwibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/32484185810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af76de316231f167b84470a61f0a3ce6/49992265399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/bubowojivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04910a88d5887d7732b65e1b2a4babf5/mavapopikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a214ce8d0cf---jogetuwapitogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/sakuritofuvazakixuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/vipowijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b87a89d6df560b2d0b5ee343ab0879d3/moxumunibisutowamofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/gukatanozogubafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/10976457972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/52921694203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3437301e66---jamuzujekaselopunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4dbf36ea68---45541910019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/gapogugifisezefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebcde6d5508f0fe0f96f4c9ed136d117/nutirojotilidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c11c5ed95---57104026977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a8ac5115a---kukewowalotigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082115d49fd9---kibavesagazokifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8a83375f5---63426213653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072705b24955---topuribeneboxomupunopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/magopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9a335cea7---79197244564.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000faaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C6 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 4e2089580f32ab6dccef9f559ee6a921a391394dd6c7c2bf7324611313ddfbbf
font_02_sfnt_off00012cb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB6 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
font_03_sfnt_off000141de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141DE 19476 bytes
SHA-256: bc599d3fc16402536e3b0f52426251cde9cab3ab8db18cd134fe6d172536aaee

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