Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 713709dbe799495a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-21 10:59:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ec5068ea9aedaeacd29c8cea7c502153 SHA-1: f6a099a4d72459112bd919830050452e5c152021 SHA-256: 713709dbe799495ad07a4c7faad6e1db77ee6cc2d7fb994f078f340e1afa8d91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious files. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the document is designed to leverage disposable hosting for these links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/6700381982.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f4730e0ad---27064157175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7ca90a2549124e4aec8ac9652a38ba6/73132108651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073759139a4c---12536964191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2a654e699---tobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/16589882092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be086e4cfb0---70849127363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082069a6d796---sesijuvoxotiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a29dd3e5b---23762212069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723bac484d6---mavaveliwezafuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/mewefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80cf1edac5f8d8e59240751b0914e985/fojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab089d31160---72444128339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed4f878550bebb6036753aeed442d890/76334159239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078af06a56b6---22780390082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa2a17b5070dd54897aea8b35dd025e6/xibofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gggo19d3sam9rrqrkt8k9kafb2/rebipudopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/kutakarivuzezuzajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+bakugan+battle+brawlers+para+ppssppPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7EA 6860 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f0fc54d546bfbac78525868c332ce9af942f140a3614e3d653c766460e913
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF0D 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 4d1f28038bc4ddb4b86534de929108cae243570fe27cea4c25f35219c4370da1
font_02_sfnt_off00010096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10096 2504 bytes
SHA-256: 0ee854a24b89f7ee8570bbc505c50a6667f3068117e125e0485dee6a0a160261
font_03_sfnt_off00010b7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B7D 12760 bytes
SHA-256: a4e2da97614ec629161365d97b460333af34cf2ea19a47cf297908ef7f34112e
font_04_sfnt_off000133de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133DE 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6fc3bf9d751f70540aea0fa47faa159a3604992cda23d2adcda3ffc5346b2
font_05_sfnt_off000148a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148A5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f