Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b131607513eba0a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-08-07 17:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1ab05d7d377b3cec1561af614c5b80fd SHA-1: 862ef95b9d242f953cf44db4fa1d3553b4be3fe2 SHA-256: b131607513eba0a05d3e9bc31e5e85f41e308d9805d001d778f23871713b8fe0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites, masquerading as legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e890e5b3a---vovotuvupoju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/jumoralevaruratabavadox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freebcard.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bidolivadisozoluxafowirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/3879386550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/226575aede671610f1ac97d0278622d7/xidotexawibiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce1bda2915---finasevosoluju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/15501256056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103c706671fc---naxaxexidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadc7484cf3---14784982878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/64073872833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/nunajurololox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4da361e707---vixijokofetazoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://attackworkoutprogram.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24752492511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/66005122890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90ab474e0---wupedulexepebetafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/39492316156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88f63d81ecfdbee4ed1b98490d736ab9/24555108596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/54548969715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensacolahigh1964.com/clients/1/1d/1d652d7f5bd5fd2f3712913460b20393/File/62070386227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/2581953290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+merge+two+word+documents+into+one+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98C 1696 bytes
SHA-256: 266b75d8d95edd4e06796966e43e1bb0a7116b249193fb313f1988fa9bd38e89
font_01_sfnt_off0000f19d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19D 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 725fe2733a076abfdfe55aa3fc5fa0f23f8082a64e87b8937628ffcb5789504a
font_02_sfnt_off00011fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB4 10932 bytes
SHA-256: b84956f899f84f6c06a787f0ddbb218223aa5c6c45122d061a9df278d87c56c1
font_03_sfnt_off000138d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1