Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3d13f658ed26590…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-08-29 16:19:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bd5921dd93af11299ff4c0f3a76c84d0 SHA-1: f040640734700ec40766095946c8540e815f7e16 SHA-256: f3d13f658ed26590d1de0eb75ff032629b2bb6ec4c30eb39f7f8b68c58f7e1fa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, further indicates malicious intent, likely to facilitate the download or execution of a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://c-amc.com/upload/files/wulokaludivivaxisaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/72017257607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/28542220577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9fbd6c3773---71439503244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zerifuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/68761955744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607165c380758---mojatejuvekikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/putemodojipebosibusuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/fipunuzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eb2f1eface5373690df3d0ed49b2dce/minigebopekigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86c6e0ed45---7750921279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/wigoriviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/nazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t2l1guuaj57bdfllos6u2ppk2/vetarewosokekejiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3205025c49e3adbb362df2f6e216bc96/89939326270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/30672289333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210601024256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b243de377---ruxewusolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/31476934695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/kivasigajamojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/109ah8sckgnf1j4m54nua57f31/23423441580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf662ebd7b1eb6a99168f2478f2570f/tujekufareko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/accf8bd9259c4fdca2759acd0f835d87/vupudofonobupusobofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadatv.com/webroot/img/files/lugixevogezakuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=dnd+beyond+create+characterPDF 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_off0000dcfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f50c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50C 18208 bytes
SHA-256: d7defd76d48379ef237dbba8b5ba652d3700b51743f94941ae0561c46272fbcb
font_02_sfnt_off000124cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124CC 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 01ff0733d01b0a6ae8ad0162139b49a94c2d8128b6b308ddc01d2c0bca3b2d77