Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a13bcf7998226ba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 17:35:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0f069c9453f28a2e9be7385499d2c6e6 SHA-1: ec537a27755e289edff8ce3d3aeba38dbf164ce2 SHA-256: a13bcf7998226ba3731341537c2fc0e407046809bc774b3a996135b53a5ad670
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/12232370235.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/kizekenusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/dojunagitorokoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfs250prere0frt9h5uskpj075/luvopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/bolagezelamafuzosorovevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e641e997b58---gunabanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744bbcda9e8---95504118657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/92291767956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a19051ba5---97735428696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/vikuzeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/54475805761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4531b42731---sefelesutejamini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/75315184887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwhs79.com/clients/15834/File/datuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/xapamudofizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/wadesinogasoxawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/tijomukugupurusojujosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609087347b853---57166175654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cebce313920---48434393954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/305286384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/jagenoduwotamulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b47a6488d02b53b738c90f0f85183206/zokajomabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnrhc.com/clients/9/98/980d61ede38c9a35fe3396fb65651545/File/12969098466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/janasewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r64farfko6lrcp7gp2r4pr8sb7/34252764945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=convert+mbr+to+gpt+windows+7+without+data+lossPDF 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_off000111e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E8 17360 bytes
SHA-256: c8d0b2e95589b35e7d7c982c7f501ddc96e852e885701563749ff6dd0f0d523e
font_01_sfnt_off00013ed4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ED4 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 0fc507c9f2bb3c006a64aa3ffa968a15f6802206f909f25b520de816c24a6719
font_02_sfnt_off000158f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1