Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 813c5685a150e907…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-08-12 11:02:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8bf0659b6f7d66ea9d8bf19ff69632bb SHA-1: 3d3f46e917df32dec9ef80b4101018f63b7e1104 SHA-256: 813c5685a150e907b3cdb5a7ca336f6e3e0673936898a2634ce6110685f1e3f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to WordPress sites with form upload plugins, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs point to a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to external, potentially compromised, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/soruzifesatasopex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmfqc30p34ba5r0m9klmfeumss/zuwutatexajokexeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942298cbe09---kikusiboref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8648cf278f---wimixon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608948ab7afc9---33960081610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42e8d7edc98936ec9ee7d4b8e364258/16392164393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/viruturun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d3e40a478---5520856359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/12435916931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iehobr6g1s7ca8acjj4s691van/76589044335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b782c85d350---jikesobusane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/moxejakofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/gotigunemanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/bibodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84fdc7395b418863c288b17bfab7a394/32213605664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a44087e6fc1cbc8915e283503c32fb10/wulezorijikegidofapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb949d734594655f22f566bc6746a7b3/vitoropaboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a83ae8cba---xirizaborusulokozazapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/22368447507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/zuxoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114c695b6e85---3111493401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/82061552521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0bb16433250297b8c229068ca27f161/94564738255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/513428c4754468e2e109396b52f7cfc5/belisomiwezawabojopulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=apple+watch+ecg+app+series+6PDF 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_off00010b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12351 16884 bytes
SHA-256: fdde50138469012817671d868bf7bc6544dedc078f768d01753a5401b7a3a3e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014f5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F5D 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 105980669fff41f08554db701bfe69d385acd7669ec164159a896bb6db6b9c77