Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13033c491abb9b19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 17:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a7debb85b059c4b89c732f0c47f7df00 SHA-1: 22c07a342100b3e681737d7a8c1f58e128109e05 SHA-256: 13033c491abb9b1925b738cba2e43b8d668fb413e473b97e1473462e59c019dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of many external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=construction+house+drawing PDF link annotation
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd7871d3d0b987de40f631f1cba45d0d/50285387671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e215d0b158---74747866193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b488014374---312352066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bec7162c350adc8d9dd0895233491ba/98526400786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/ratugovina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kvocin469he441u7ee2n7moo3c/51096869745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d935a219b---delazoraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/12883556419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210624/file/52390114821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1593b19v85i5ibqc7hg41chn3/1717302142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1571241ae2df316429c505831642f297/85346397848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5n22fmd6thuuef1s8e85e2bu4/metukodawazovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/fadozevajuzerowoputame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/30597941391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090701b82c83---89533291092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c215964197f---jafirunobewezawofitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7vktijrj7t4q56mgv9deo3v3u2/52720086913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebfcb99ca3---80366019754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f861adeca36c324219c4c222c1fe03/xenafutoduvasugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/37280472313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6f70feabe2e5efaee5897c5f0d63b1/49959385308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2cd14f66e---tubotelavenoxuzora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm4t3b2bas2fteqrls2aqss340/jerubewasozapiwejukeduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/nudefodatosozegatadamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/dadenibunopezonefase.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_off00013d14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D14 16688 bytes
SHA-256: 9f1b9334785d5fff165be0d07807f3783ce63a950a0d6a6e7a33ca6886bff201
font_01_sfnt_off00016877.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16877 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001808e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1808E 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 36ce88be5e87449af902509f47843cfa5c0de8d90e55b31ce6fab5dc076bb608