Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b17a13fb3751350e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 05:10:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 53dc72e5f0690724a0e2d7f381c580c9 SHA-1: dc0e3c52d04c5e693cd95a152aebe8019175a781 SHA-256: b17a13fb3751350e2b45fb8fe3fc07644594398f6b09c6aea3e13e3ed19941e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to distribute further malware or lead users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+build+your+own+cob+led+grow+light PDF link annotation
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/735c72e7290c99569487c7d13cf2fa45/mexabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce731458ea32071f54dfb9430f4c7074/11085715750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098503906719---gufinaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787720d58c1---77990934410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/60577204940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/94863244016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/74299234037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608015bf5f70b---sudijoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/97474028531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn9hmi64cs6en2t9a4q03a4rg5/wazudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0e7e3053d---45984891682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202106file/2021061919423370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hj8u4og5tpaq1gqg19fn8ijcra/vonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2j8fm4e83hlfe76tcgap7pc0bh/5172756850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/vifekapoxakozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3603e10306c7f3996d331ee881f63eb7/56993686198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609070617ee57---99070472805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/mufodiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e32d3452513ee973ea121bf86ff1cce8/devitolunibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bfffd8d1e---rezasujametonukuralino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/85470753216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f73c745e5---38672242611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-aqua.fr/ressource/site-image/files/varosizupedaxifalame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/662b58b6212fdd13546ce13de12e0b6e/82939247386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021515233303875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef895ff5009faf62e21cdf625da94f83/97760361008.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_off0000faed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112FF 17380 bytes
SHA-256: ecc5bfa5289e8794ab17a39e5fdd377e26b8c2f1543defc31149e3024dce6483
font_02_sfnt_off000140ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140AE 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 9889d43e728c9c302b95a602c7c1107ed5ae6aefc09ffa4a264fd01896f11bab