Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f313b2baf9f77c9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 15:09:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 17f7c4413f963a1fa9d5308b0327fb87 SHA-1: 982489296e12ddb535fb6de5c8dc2ec962bd4a29 SHA-256: f313b2baf9f77c9c510df21ec92ae241eb44eb70a07233f7e8786bbb95b5a7c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document designed to exploit users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+line+spectra+or+atomic+spectra PDF link annotation
    • http://giprozdraw.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18931740758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/89988557179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47a578c3399bfeccde00b37ec4f116da/79708903168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dock-levellers.com/upload/files/dosulodisune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9891338ff---30351496919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/soi7t3h5jtqrtdcendf4iap0u5/89189672618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckla25b10p9chamt671ufsnapc/89516510616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9i01e8olou53ke3lno4qg9iue1/wovopixefovikolidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/7880853525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o68e9oq8br767t8nqjctci0sst/supetalodadugakalobege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents//files/wosute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b967d9a293d72ac0857c30048d0b2a/61921485582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b40da91a0---sukevimewonis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/topibatudaguligatatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/gonipiguxiwepebenodijaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/fafasigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607232ad79287---barifapumamomaselokela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5808ddb61---5379332952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cff483eab32---jenaxedebesetovuluzenexim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/9687434025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/93948883960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1q74j75mtka5856h6kqkufbha/vosupafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af478cd5ab5ba9d2af3d7c21be5c07bd/6525015539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d567093ca281ee655b98233e6fece55/nipavani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760569848f6---rikiva.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_off0000e808.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE808 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 963d83bc516cf85379352e8aecd1512a1f636d788811af8bf6f0cde2e9ebcae0
font_01_sfnt_off000117e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E0 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 8729fbac40cd1a75b4c0285ce76caaee112b753da07edf6f275618eb95b7fdeb
font_02_sfnt_off00013002.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13002 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1