Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b13909ae14ef1797…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-08-11 04:44:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f04707bf31a815a153e7b5c96a8c3352 SHA-1: dffe33828f0d6728ce11e52f556494da980ece95 SHA-256: b13909ae14ef179725296ce5e2c0e7c6cc4a1bec79d1689cb9736ea0d9b30230
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content but likely serving as a container for the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/68356320141.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b9127c9091be738c8a063849b68c56e/fogunipadafupurijemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/nopagegepaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/41981427398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e682ca9d0a0---51771835972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/961470421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/5026858283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c2bbecb0c48c9e3d7fe25e12406edf/velawumunazuduvawizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19468bda08---85565346374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb9fd75f46462c8767babfe942043030/36609461910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://em-mould.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34132345583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasebabenabaxodaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/lilivobomama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada991b45be---wotugiwujemodarafikapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f3e16f5ec---71672132553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6ceqj9uahmu9ps1joivv02ski/11279916708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/57331587373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=cause+effect+clue+wordsPDF 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_off0001125d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1125D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6F 28000 bytes
SHA-256: 2aec721bffdeb39bcc65ea42261b1c4f2c568c5a3945ee5fe5f7e5fdc95ee366
font_02_sfnt_off00016fa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FA1 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 4160cf99052ff5a5a3e8f4d001ef4d77f1f917916ac370209a8d321c4dde8c79