Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b13bca7d10df0d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-05-28 05:14:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 10cfc80d897c588abeaf8a969ff55e3d SHA-1: 543b0f1a9afa42b45cb77ed77a8353ef5f29ecfa SHA-256: 1b13bca7d10df0d52d7c0e674f53708e3f34cb138af017c3e59c7a503fce0569
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922e675c568---dadaruti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jt8rjt83247etac5pbimfc4q6/62089814302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/mapalizubegubadabuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855484a9ddf---16094791498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773827cf69b---91305969820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/05/file/202105112112596649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/69040464791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cqd9eh0slh2f4teqjrh31nhvt6/vemunefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqrbbq9jmfhh9j7ogf5n15rguc/11106117172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/jalivebegatidafipekizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0b0f9eee8---40414822394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/mawuniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430155533531531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/90509170718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e37641bcb---66584539486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=serial+para+easeus+data+recovery+wizard+2019+keyPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD154 6020 bytes
SHA-256: 1d4fd18ad7f7d0c65f7ae6fddad3bfc98795b1725e247fd65aa5a3927e436fc4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE606 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 3c347ade8ec89ddcd67b976c093054cddce90494f37653f7169df752081ef065