Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13a806881ac0a040…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:05:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: bb2c2ffcb0311e36d89d07db7e13bb19 SHA-1: b6d9ee0f964645f2bdcf5484d36e024736b3831d SHA-256: 13a806881ac0a040c132aef907e65294a680b67ff272482d41ea3d242ef30f96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/lirosawesanigajuxunozupot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.org/files/6908846033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/80864923781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/32708763296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/zetidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f49ad241c856de5418416b6d6fbd910/jikipulule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/dumilejadideru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhh1cd9n99ugbrdui90at6tn40/vebozuxezesepefavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722fccd463d---84832636976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831282ea53d---kusaranaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcf1klmljtjb79q2c0rn9nkc57/vavugoniwoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n92kgaqrubpjgoupkdllgb4csv/wesorupipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34452947848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875818b668347d66d7b1f6894b3edb31/nejarez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a376bc3e2---50907593076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levotst.com/uploads/files/loguwaxemuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da773912297---90483301648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/37117053157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/boxarijuvavisifekuvapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9841f2fe5f---61152269758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/14668375963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h91srgbioofr3mqftvpdvncc3/latumusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/em84ooiemaa7p3ske0j65afqi4/fuzevepikomowufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4453477970---pifebavuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d9812b2eb---kuxuzadutigawewodinigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=frequency+distribution+probability+calculatorPDF 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_off0000cb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB56 10984 bytes
SHA-256: cd106e1dd0301d3ceb5be94fd1c07ab31af7dd78e22eaf9fa49da296c12695f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE482 17536 bytes
SHA-256: dab35143396fc1e1d0b45e7bdb0b527ed466a1e746d7356a4a848a3f1531b158
font_02_sfnt_off0001121a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1