Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a13a9c6a9a82848d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-08-10 07:47:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 128179201b6ed5967b25c734f30509fb SHA-1: 74e2155faf31064dc8a19644f578b8f6be15eda8 SHA-256: a13a9c6a9a82848da92059ed094d8a683b904b23158fa21795e321805c280f73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing lure or a downloader for further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9884

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+velocity+vs+time+graph+from+position+vs+time PDF link annotation
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/tasivitudalarolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r915ihn4gjg1r1ogecl1ctscgk/faxulazotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a371ab38ec4---47494749719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcd847ba2e---53041112226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1622183882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12130709568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukorbetegshop.hu/files/3717320691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812a681104d---45863601129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/293e664c3f0f79890b925bc13ca56b6a/kukesosuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608596e575536---pemofujewawobetigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/35824633284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/fazexarulefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/17847445539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vvpta-irvine.org/userfiles/file/53912378912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adef24a07d8---55440875617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cb6b021ea2f1aaa469adfd31a38943d/xokomufoluwidewegegitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f080f9d5c0---jevudegujesuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/kopalafatufemonixeguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/41865164149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66e3e91e78110fd4cd76fe396b0d129a/vumafusixavowaviwuwuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/48942299525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/36923476808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413386ae1a88ba030f135d1335960b9a/ganimopevopakuloveponese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335d931fb941450a028c487f67aa3b78/82915650888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0547se9rn1g4dqlreq9su171pa/wixelifisuzozubedoxetixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/32006433267.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_off0000f0da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DA 19588 bytes
SHA-256: 186c8264ebeee2e62012321b1cf29891103e9a6d6f0edaa7c13f7222112785a8
font_01_sfnt_off000122e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B00 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 2f679b9a6c2479d3de03054a37266f37d94ec828bc271d1ca96e923fcf7459e5