Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 830813f2ff3f4272…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 21:21:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: d7316d569455188f20e511700d1a8f3e SHA-1: a4edb9ab4c4de9506c6cc7ea8feb313e2c09e782 SHA-256: 830813f2ff3f42720311c784ea2a8a9e7dbd4ce6416ebf80f526169be357eb54
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is a lure to download a secondary malicious payload, likely a Trojan or phishing document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f681b9fcae---30753602368.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c262d060e76---zinevoluzivusowedulaguli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/bunodojubetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/vukopaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe157d91e5---luguvogotifigisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/9676094237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fda7ca8b9f8---37310559339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/fidapeladogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a41e349a5554f120726652ee968d5e/zolezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b13c9b484---66500939694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8osvbh86n6cihrv4q9b89lvr7/32916284728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55c56f2aa5---2327411018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/ribufivosopixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/pizapiferuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/89178668909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f14ddb6812---38430717198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/lavojolimerasomesegerof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717567ca04e---jekosonoridijiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uukij7qgicstp8ff5bt56gdn43/daxiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctvqu3q2sq2ikelp72s4mmkgrc/19918446498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/gofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/13438800768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=microsoft+excel+tutorial+for+civil+engineers+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_off0000bf6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF6E 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4dfe2c32edc9e55ecfa17ab95dada2551737eb2fc60387abdca525a7ada7fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000d92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f13d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13D 15996 bytes
SHA-256: f665e9600b3ea7a3863bb2a7bc891f1cdba5a931abb309141966f4c9f4979407