Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13ba42b6e3d40a3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 15:29:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1611cfc19fb97192a4e510817720d4a2 SHA-1: 823adf1de9fc52957cf379c29fa2be4873ac1339 SHA-256: 13ba42b6e3d40a3f940b604d288982f0efa347d611f48273a5da9cf52c9e53b2
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 a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics related to external URIs and link farms strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=csf+infection+treatment PDF link annotation
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/25802382747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/lavojebatikase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87b52016cec04fb49dffa3d3d069fc4/ribebuledovexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3g6dbur1t2pmm0tojirld98fc/sitadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63090763875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toddfamilyreunion.com/clients/4/48/482e924d5a052aa4a0c13eb8a30e0bc8/File/87905936347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitman1964grads.com/clients/6/6c/6c9ae932573016e5ff31759a10dce4b4/File/tisabokorizubawutobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4006000fc0---67223223009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/gakigeravexidubifajumizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af369bc41e63802c1d340f2e1e7e41f7/bonupizifopuxabofakodiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5f0706ff18e61f760749fcfb6e67b6/84478232424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/10374369740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a375e353d7b---xuzavonukaxojigefiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210518024738594726964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/18377071273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/7150594496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5409f0dca312b632270e2d88c31d28fa/61665289727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aifamilyreunion.com/clients/59202/File/gefolozomikoduzovelako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallacewilliamsfamilyreunion.net/clients/6/66/662ca4338cd1fa41fa93b88222973dc6/File/lozidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abaad7aea33---16907862943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/wazujobebodogorutebiboren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/48868171954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608399af0b632---22630259534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a106531d4fcf9f51b670bf2fe696e63/81537822118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd026e59150acf9fbd927db110a630a/49937536194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7bec08467---81672644576.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_off0000ea66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001027d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1027D 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 9cfc7ab2364a45bf91560ce01eb5635c48cadbcc902b2b580ad93edef85f7958
font_02_sfnt_off00011a4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4F 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 47dbbb990c093909f42c46d650e496ee4d9f87c6cc7daaad779071d3f794acd5