Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8513180da14afe65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:48:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0ba96a1991a41888be4defa0c48c22cc SHA-1: 3043844f94de71f52483e6f0c91e423a41f62cda SHA-256: 8513180da14afe65ba7a1f9d77a7a19da04f6fa6326b4557896c4c12158b6d53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is structured as a link farm, likely to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4107d2659b---toredevurozonaporuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b276efe516b---kagokomodozexabitenozekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1475ea588e03e737de361fad7c4738de/dogujavapaginuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cc3dbbbb2b180330e7ce65626e4029a/5803703633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5vo8a9f0vrr9vii581p0amdun/wibasubefifilutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/19710443083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/zukukonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a331a5ccfd---fewifiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc6d11a521---5656844312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhosting4.net/media/file/90904945422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/66490400453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83076b5498cfe871bbd5dca9c4b584a8/79019337610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09f58cad6d---9824692812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8d3237425---84564436738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc7e622e4f8fa24b09a89c8829b284f1/dexoxiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/ruponegel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbje59h8c0vu1fo2njo7jpdnse/folepaguzefopigija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca5de451d9---guveralolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novzelandiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76535756826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autolubitel-irk.ru/userfiles/file/remibuxepakoxikasiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/66274101959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/serunata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37153c539edd902a5a7df5b6b772e1ac/79577796710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4smontreal.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/fasidabuwofemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=misbehavior+of+markets+mandelbrot+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_off0000ecde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDE 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 75052100c3fe0806d5cf51020ead202bb3beb3a46a590960224249fac3e267d9
font_01_sfnt_off0001063a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063A 19004 bytes
SHA-256: 4a85b078fc0f7648714576ce440f8599a4fd459e98c3d3b34465e9db710d5fc8
font_02_sfnt_off00013770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13770 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1