Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2013e15f344f8922…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 00:42:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 66ca2e9a566eaa1942b0b60c0a9e5512 SHA-1: aad4b7295601f2ed81ed413159646b87f7cbd4bf SHA-256: 2013e15f344f8922f0081400b3f61f7bee35a50ef7f6e81bb40df62253ab6c65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/236f2a9706384475b9616e1bf60c3740/70748572544.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776b8a9ef6c---79595157228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/9644841783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/mugafazuvaberivorukaxepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd11fb7ee4bf1438c9b37e422c377694/1249514445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/7988377803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/15918492648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/xerezekowipegaranunubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/pirunugukojopofelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82a39dcd5c1a07842d59c7eb6d604b50/83509054732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/41703590733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/rometikerokirudekupafulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2e83d20fd---sozijosuxetubameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/xelibemapawakulezerevesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ki9re56rq82pnhp0bhmaahdc90/defofatovosinex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liffeyartefacts.com/fckimagefile/file/sulufokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3082fd433efe5d84e9337c39dc30fb68/xivamumaruted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f36dac8e3e5e42323d7003e92efe989/fewuxodenasovojilenuzipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xowuwogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jn7jjo0rjg2hutqdl3cg7q166p/52621388840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b136060a5b---jutomuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qpshouse.com/upload/image/file/66455982283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608174839c504---rilokigozevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5f5a9fcebfe0525a113c9a390e23813/bofoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=q%26a+template+for+instagramPDF 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_off00012720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12720 9132 bytes
SHA-256: ba953caa8049f52a9151b524cb1fca428d9d8587d767bd7e1481c3b6b716932f
font_01_sfnt_off00013a0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001521c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1521C 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 60e3308572f11c7798ca6c46d8f1e486a28e41beb8ffe76209f94f5b61e31c78