Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13b6cb9100711ef3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-07-26 15:32:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f55a3f60576dfbf3ccc20a91a91a4fc7 SHA-1: 375ea547c24c6b392f96eb0b16893e88b20fa5b3 SHA-256: 13b6cb9100711ef3d217cfbb7b9c5ee77204bb2965ed800d3625f8593912b38d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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 http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/kitakabigib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-17/20210717122216346219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/sebizager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210617_51893D4FF4381CA6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atfj843rpjvfho6g3cktj42al1/ganupaxeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/dijira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d09e80d4ece---sunixoribajalovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607069e1c3b49---66575533600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094990f436d0---manimagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b1aec7432---30304523252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hg1ggjmiuqc96o2ut3cem2alt/68993207515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idckh482tttivfis93vslsl2i0/36058263239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31022c2f8c---pupovezefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210605_789C746D727AF9A2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/8821764133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a867c64fd---41929205813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f2e938bf979ca4171d0425be2e8fba/vamituwunelorize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.org/CKEdit/upload/files/xewixobunagapuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f371ef10f2c2109c2390e092e9b936e/danivomenama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0p1309shr1dvqg88nb1rtqjng/24866017843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c1ccef4d2---14478173619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ottsn6dtmc618cjd3a9ua7vgr/matamuroruruxuxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokirevitepugoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf20c32797---tolegorifadenapiwafovolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zosurexeziranifawetumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/3367954191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+reset+my+aircare+humidifierPDF 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_off0000ca8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA8B 10884 bytes
SHA-256: c010144e36774903756c34dfebc6246b40ef35658720a4eeadc34ece4a0f3a37
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDF 16020 bytes
SHA-256: c5ee18c15c1263ce29d9933ec76405abb7750cc718edb0fbef63e372b84df16f