Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13c62cedab4af63f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:26:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3d022274821b97c7f1fbc7970b95e4be SHA-1: 874db5675664fe15f9e83db37d176a7a094816a0 SHA-256: 13c62cedab4af63fd537f2632f096644134f4a5ff817c2f22378c35b98f4b465
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests a phishing or spam campaign aimed at driving traffic to specific content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=generate+pdf+c%23+open+source PDF link annotation
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f195ef4ad973ee160005897ba51f5215/nipoxumagovozineladefajot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210703152856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/tulimasufikiwofinofub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/50109138169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e26a05b4c---59718906870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/795c9e1671470bdaad6ed13a0e2d5d9f/ruranezudelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drproperty.in/userfiles/file/wekuvevekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/dufageve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/96000008759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fccd29a834---62633005759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee24793f1a---57785512004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/93343170592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/369bea2e0f66ecb894e8f91558a30954/mebizolefejukirapala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/fifaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/nifowigovivufulubaxowilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2ae781008---4521402466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/19686164879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26277ebfcf---liwotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/47604631535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb803a03f3---95029891415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/gobizelufimuravoxusaxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticaproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64550573237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd66a3b1cb585e171b63a58fc72e1ad/fuzejafalawaxugexejapabe.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_off0000c660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC660 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 8b3486544ca59b2e3c34c6d8734a7f8523e3fcf438022c018bfe96f77fc28aa3
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF587 17580 bytes
SHA-256: a4448bc15cc1dfb71aad38b12d768b518c963f5b5caf71e1a4156dd9e2528453