Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 513f143b061b9cde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 19:30:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 83e8f28c4bc72447b30653be4d6f71bc SHA-1: e2c2761c62963c9bd519527fc9404b25b4687450 SHA-256: 513f143b061b9cde65183bdc15da40b6c95fce96986cb986947eacb461359593
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated high maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/linavi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/5563340792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/85477139276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a4513e3a5---rabelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my-hustle.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/2333849053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/47680448200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d8683cb22b9693143c0f05819573a66/kilibiluzabeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qualityfirstservices.pro/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/pofamaxefofupitilefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cbbb9937f553ed69df90a0cc9bdf893/bamatunojopibijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/28954792313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.americaninvest.net/upls/files/rexasibuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ne4iscunt39evl7jh7vtuqg89/zefabotikavobosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/ximuzexonabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/21155343396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/18851474368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oalysa.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92390144242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60905749807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359e71a000e---xunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rewuwegov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c324e094b6---diwukumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewesternmist.com/userfiles/file/61720787386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89778285433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=synchroniser+son+agenda+google+avec+androidPDF 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_off0000db23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB23 18468 bytes
SHA-256: b6e03e04ffded594fd5ad66c6171fbbe0ce8376593397341c221a9ec04e977df
font_01_sfnt_off000109d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D1 10804 bytes
SHA-256: fa47ca686d6183d98ce9b7d0b21d9d856b182c14ebde0a6da00771c1881e0139
font_02_sfnt_off0001226d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1226D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1