Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13a7ccaf7d3248a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-06-08 06:23:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1b3fa803cf299b5d31db55b24f3f0d30 SHA-1: 1e3334a7aa5768e144d6982d0769e00a427d6792 SHA-256: 13a7ccaf7d3248a4bd56e6074393752d366eaa465b112994c402f8414a9d4368
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shukla+yajur+veda+pdf+sanskrit PDF link annotation
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0448bc290d576ea39ae51394b6807e7/lezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe2912c526---47227322687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6366cb9d3---2049633246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd51fe8b7d---nijilunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/32112098525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm62b5aol0n0mb1sujspn25e17/64056051436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/vejido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/470f486eeeb15a0596fe5e851fa38c8f/tituwunokugigifalupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/479oqlbf6558tti8ctruhcr3bf/11805259115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87dd3f53dd313c9362ff2be6d8d8340b/84257457323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nm09pc57mm5k71cuk4irqgd0n6/pagetazojisefumojovusaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadanur.com/resimler/files/sageberazanepikage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2f9526da54e73fe337d85c9bed8016/danazulizexedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85183c507d94b19670c2d5bd61bfc348/11702683207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sq71l7ls0er695vh41iebco62g/17712183625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/893089dcc743860fa70630c01721a5c5/65181148622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD537 5536 bytes
SHA-256: 59094925596ba72de8a9fbae354aeae5fed5fde5090b17b5b2a1eccc8b360ded
font_01_sfnt_off0000e814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE814 9764 bytes
SHA-256: aac5f6e2bd04a868a5609a446d73eaea1e6dc5ce3f10b61bb4233e6743fdfb08