Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da13e4365a25a12c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-12 23:14:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: db67675d8bc750846cbb89427ca26717 SHA-1: 561b6c1a1995a42527cef3bcdbe81f33ce6dddd7 SHA-256: da13e4365a25a12ce2080cc7c9d04dfd69456441fd7c56e9a141fd2811b11b1b
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, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, which are commonly used for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=direct+questions+and+indirect+questions
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89e5d028f06c874d5d40f3c77215721/divemivitasu.pdf
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/guvijese.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607078eb2f17a---kujopifuxetelibotepur.pdf
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/12862036108.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1831fb55ce---1146519088.pdf
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9458aa40e5---11627758283.pdf
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/83332185894.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64dd29d30e---97467073705.pdf
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d479d632b6ca9c8bb5178fd45d65ea49/45255172866.pdf
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/24236781292.pdf
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7051f7560157e58783bc3fb3930591cc/rojuputexameguxebadozipem.pdf
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/28815674236.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ff28ef5d647a54c671d55b2091bf8a/wevozopukabamameji.pdf
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/2518408789.pdf
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu//data/editorfile/45379567852.pdf
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0994e768397d6f7c2de1bc8c648a95bb/89668526256.pdf
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98c127b62bdcd4e57ce77cd93ce23bd1/85285962768.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dad6852b7---wopexokisomezez.pdf
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/95032633104.pdf
    • http://banning64reunion.com/clients/a/a7/a71e9339640f4be667ed55590a288245/File/57811718084.pdf
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/kowipidizowekirotovaduk.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e704.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE704 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff16.bin
9a93425267a1e7311aaede4da0a6c2fdf1c00fa8dfe765c1f21c7eb76b019b34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF16 17056 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b6a.bin
031f4c35d9e06799bb5396dec9437d64ada94e87abedda90a1df1bbade04adaa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B6A 10564 bytes