Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13b0180d6b1ca43b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 14:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e01b16de518008cb57f64185f3c5c83e SHA-1: 325d179125ca1730a7c8625686dce88d191ba400 SHA-256: 13b0180d6b1ca43b95312706aa7aeaf9c6e93cd73fb8abd9164928fc3e101b0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs point towards a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=load+combination+as+per+is+456 PDF link annotation
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/84207294286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db487176b21eb8bc1c7265e6927dc52e/velijefifamovekora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/25766676479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juloxokowaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7498ac71f---62046701999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc43b6d494---94516695806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/30371649913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hq17thq52up1fm2p8j22vqqsfj/29298832464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb03cf9a1c6017efdd34373dd06a2aca/87009619662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942154d519f---98419944369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b87fceaab---916596481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5667e2e413---59337861772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a35bc0fa24af380fc67820ab4675e0/rejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/838378ca1441b0d33ecd4d3f3c7083fe/nugowunadagiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/14387691385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/nelafexomojojugexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089875c9efd7---6741350093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce194e7e7fb75e1ff7bea2bf5a9758d4/9206486788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4c618a636---2645690485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860dfc725dc---32193524111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa4ea7a8a069829df8d714baf8d79ee/nenavupomivitotijoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58affu3pimfr3u8gadpmcs8o8j/91377831341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608199930e3e8---vorikuzitawesogisu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AB 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 505f1f16fb057e2a34e7666bb0a43a50f2e0b7bc0033e59b70183295ac12d2e9
font_01_sfnt_off000105e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E8 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 7a4661c016e2edac362fe51ac7e86a8ae2bed7dfa85de45ffa9920e17a47c532
font_02_sfnt_off00011fa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000137b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137B9 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 5a4adf3c094053fb570d0edff4584d958bb65c874379f2aa9a54e299a5cee95e