Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13d6fcc3f566e157…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-23 17:03:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c265f7084d72f99d9d1b7c947ff74df5 SHA-1: 28ba7f7ed02a495e6c683a64893da50b4c5885b3 SHA-256: 13d6fcc3f566e1577dc329f60508c3f5031d99c5e1cfa9a15af5d4469674da8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload or redirect to a phishing page. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs and the overall structure point towards a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=turbo+driving+racing+3d+game PDF link annotation
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5838800243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb68e547d1db56246eee25db54fdc53/43628786798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/funofabufozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38a8e554c9f7816be287d03ee452262/divegofomelesejurode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeton1959.com/clients/863834/File/buturowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfeab77d574---zokabizigeniduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa4c42d1ea55f079ba59b05ad0b96694/xinuratevuxorabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d097f9c5de8---setufabeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb86e5ef7f3eec63103facb6923aac1/melaxevosekudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9u6tg9fapu1af8olnl7t3ovcns/ragadobulojozenusodixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d8458cde0---gamajilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9bc51c5e1---6290790671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/jopepaxunefiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/436cf835a375cc641561a8a6efb3f07e/79348559392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD00 5360 bytes
SHA-256: c319c02612a9d5fdcba167ee484265ac6acb64a67a7b8ae16239707f4512b466
font_01_sfnt_off00010f32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F32 10904 bytes
SHA-256: cbead1bc6d97e20b3a5029f97005803d8a410b00a3bc204eb0e88e844e7d2609