Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 613a36349bf290b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 04:55:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c7be12c46c40183e9d803014bff77b5b SHA-1: bd671028d962f760fb7aa7499a5592ec0616002a SHA-256: 613a36349bf290b0b1783d50a4ca231c6413ad9e111a22b82093dabb81133846
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The presence of numerous URLs, many using 'utm_term' parameters, reinforces the phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lumps+on+joints PDF link annotation
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7902615262---72598742442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94550031865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ba4b8dd20---59790487524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/74517549730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/sewefozatavixonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8708db1b83---nadonewixonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbgio50fmkb0r9fqlrj8npr1ef/kuzobamuweginulisiwebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jejusamonerirami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b615c55ffc8---momilexiwozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b434b366e1e---xiremezowodidaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/xonukenogisunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/rulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927346e339e---3427340007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36qp8o13900q7nm6v1r0g99o20/57068320744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/garomatibavivufaxarawane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gb46cqvgsoq9gin4n28ha026s4/wubozubatomogape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/31382855320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608460970f8ff---bapepuzavezegisamedav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb09108e38---xoxopinuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/73300469710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/sulilovekoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e7fdcbcfc---nugajabivata.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_off0000ee83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001069a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069A 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 89c80aa33dd27773d19463b3cb4c592ce323ea4f9bd4e155d03f6b4f15b3fc74
font_02_sfnt_off00011d3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D3D 16752 bytes
SHA-256: 285e7e9f2b09ba34332181299740a60ea944d405dca7b5d2e181c22961b8e00c