Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f313a0945d827a7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0bc767fad26ae93d0a20e0ad5b0a1146 SHA-1: e2c71279ff52ecd775b348a01f52f5b1b657cd37 SHA-256: f313a0945d827a7c35b09b41f05457c2de2af90772d65ac3416c9f8e19bce6a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://penzion-u-zamku.cz/files/file/85504937154.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8d0cf0805---wisunujetavupirotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/mawonito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ptssvdk4r6ovktf00vjuhu4ua7/zovudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6098b5b36d8cef078b2e57a611f1cd2e/sadapifaziser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kindspring.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25997787804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/14646057505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ea2b953662b2dd5aa92fc50e577f48f/faxatojixedora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/junorobadonuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monticellotownship.org/userfiles/file/19949427937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://networkinglikepro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58346846427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/xobesovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d27bd1fc6b---68747457445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/liludiroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f7914a4e4---pabakosimofifusanudowosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/92762607692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-housing.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa08f4789d6---25514694027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/zavawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/8265505770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakkervoorwinde.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/73649893423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fecaf246f---42807462496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/93035582349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=sustainable+development+and+environmental+protection+material+english+in+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d56d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56D 20456 bytes
SHA-256: 7eee015f730705cb2562e718fee151196a51b168be7b24e1b20b276baea7ac65
font_01_sfnt_off000109e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121FD 11448 bytes
SHA-256: 53987876893ec5e23f94d0139e8cda1812d349e68ddee6c2970d9e1490369232