Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13c7e0e00b305240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-18 06:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 24bb1ec42bae84f9342cfec1eb8e87a0 SHA-1: 70394f61f357bfae80f4a88a4a5fa583ea5abca6 SHA-256: 13c7e0e00b305240cd9e3457a466630bf122025288cb69f6ca34fc2fce61da73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/879d5cdbad450fef180eb30e7773245b/56359552556.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://top1np.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xidoduzalivevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eff271faf8---70026994520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2d62ee56a---96665369103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/viludebelipamarabafiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1b502098b---93774604314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/27654725672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f048e5cb21---8112643189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29d4e75948e3c89c4ba0726e6b317b1d/zikodurasixokikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac1d8391e2f6f3dc5e48b95168f1949e/41146308552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0ee819413---93025419643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84c330c91db5352e44105231698c62f8/womuzijejazubupenuduwaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fca4d0db24---lines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/58037833455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81766950893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://12shio5.com/contents//files/41904435714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r59e43dbnmnrhrg47rr34050fg/fageravafiraforug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23488d213bb88e5bd324a9d3c2a2d1eb/xunuvuvovadufalusaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/40746759670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/fajegulikemilepenaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700b5e4468f---21984328628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/47723269385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/27779862234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+modern+cell+theory+statesPDF 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_off000107ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AD 10620 bytes
SHA-256: b21955dfb9270ef031a0ffe36a8b58b0591ee4475c781f774f4e7311cf54f18c
font_01_sfnt_off00011fd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD4 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 23090b600c99a8eed9a1ab3102fc85561b8834de04242d173d890c06b26d2dd2
font_02_sfnt_off00014b57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1