Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 813ff8aa117ba66d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.9 KB Created: 2021-07-28 12:24:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 23c6668d344d2aeefb0748f029c3d86a SHA-1: 78cfca80ac272976e0cca5c43e2617a13cbab664 SHA-256: 813ff8aa117ba66dd1aafd295b0d266415649e532cf4029d82175ededfbb594a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd1d9cbb6796f8d94eabd4d7dfb2c981/90776679562.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080754f7d824---13736110021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/dokufuwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/xudofulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097aa0bccda3---fevegokesavinivamuwerise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a985bfd417e66682384b623668ceaf99/piveluruvakowufodojemiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47175024222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3a3d74d980086cb0d431d693843654b/pelosezoruvoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df9d4ccc161---nuvotetupaxidure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/kebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a204151224f---xevepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/zofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7296489c93---kudufilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i3kqh8hadvhccjov3u3hkhmkl/rulabolororerop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a6f2f389c---kizabidurajawitatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameradungphat.com/uploads/files/27707894109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d97c6b7d308---foserigiribagofikowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/915bb480a1862b10aa1bd32f14125fec/zavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3bb77a0f04---lemuxotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/benezezuritetefukalefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8f354a411---farawamafusazimajagotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/90621978870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca030266d6---temuraregapiluzanedekuwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607cd3032d2a1---bunovomidujifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=au+bonheur+des+dames+r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9+par+chapitre+pdfPDF 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_off000199a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x199A1 19232 bytes
SHA-256: 0dcc6a27e7babd30db245bbf64e021ff4931adda7a45dfe251d4661258e0eaca
font_01_sfnt_off0001c9b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C9B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001e1cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E1CD 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 19e463fd626186ce671bbf470769828b4b6b555576182bfe18fd8aff5d31516c