Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e13abfaee6c18e06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:22:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4fd6a07828adc7c252a3f005c2bf6e9f SHA-1: d51340b84ef8226867b02177d3cf587a95bfc36e SHA-256: e13abfaee6c18e06a7581cc7b33e2528d420ea9549d1faca5d6316d60ebcee2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, a common tactic for distributing phishing content or redirecting users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to lure users to external, potentially compromised, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=best+spider+man+game+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/kugitepixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bca1d37402---nutozaponojapapudojavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezopoberexepugosoxusixup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodlandhills.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/74068978317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9746985145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109140527327692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/zigifalabofakejimibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/kuzifonimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardena.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/woteviresovisaxijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wugumezegaxemez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/2233745357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/21530728025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613921ec9e255---misafomurik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3b5c4d061---figupadoxojopisizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/zigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizubaratubusapoxu.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_off0000e156.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE156 17804 bytes
SHA-256: d49f45e6dcbc97e68a1fa12efe8f76a3b9b016b95ae30250f63bab10dc438e8a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012738.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12738 10848 bytes
SHA-256: c8ffaefbc2a5ef97c26f8d2d5b6f102242c07c22ae91bde3eb8fa09e7be01fe5

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