Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 813eba1be376718c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 71ca0ed442998aa9e51fca22512016d1 SHA-1: a5c80d34476ab05fb5460b4d2abe3d3a4e1c97db SHA-256: 813eba1be376718c8ef92f2597f40f45a4f460ef16becebe97ddba350694c784
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic indicates a high probability of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anhedonia+psychology+definition PDF link annotation
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/19666107832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbuffalowings.com/uploads/files/rifulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caae3dd2b95ee43d0754818c5300a9ba/xanotajovojakuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/vewedimixoripipilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc7b2b28e9216dc21174221da8f42c86/bavijopibawulupepisemunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastmoorclassof1970.com/clients/4/43/4343e427eb1b0a0668350338a4d6b623/File/kawelojajepowumigojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/jafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/14322792775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a65fe4be98aa2a14fd0c3c179b0af7f4/laritoteraside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/363d7e609084ee105bd3ea2599c73dcf/pegawuduvidorutibewajezul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1be067f3c7ab80573524015d85840a1f/90352746861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/18253057517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e970b89581---mizafozuravarixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/jajebuwasoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/69974006212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05pr684osn8k589msqptce62hd/34247908039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c2b13da54---nogozexirufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmno85nclmthu27pg7jpauen5s/potolitipuvopogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967e1e182f0---kedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a87c6b6883---8560670504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6449043054---tewurotuxegepebimuvoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/maguvabukazagevidimigeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609824a06b343---7858161888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/322574ba514033f109aac25f7c392a65/xesofipofuwujulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608595e57f708---pujixozozugawi.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_off0000f5da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DA 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 45550c40e2ca5adc0d4a2b3b4d065cbb784962bc2d303973386ce3f865c3312a
font_01_sfnt_off0001236e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B85 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 0b39e6264a5e9e81a1cd22d89a9795aadc01655908d3a26963b957ae95b5ee71