Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 313b7bc60110f7a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:57:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 21234c5d3a41b74af3ad194f9416a51c SHA-1: 8b00f63a561419eaf207d1507009ddf1763ad5da SHA-256: 313b7bc60110f7a0ec0f72bf384cab2e2648a8823f3f3bde2e4493c84a525db2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is used to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings indicates a pattern of hosting links on potentially disposable or compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f619a4bb9542756d86430c9714f05728/welazotolesoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0dfcbfe3ac7aff76097cb42c17a9038/bogeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a133dddea2c---41705001163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvjtn22v2mv3f8kf8saesuplav/fabizukizusubovivudonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c19f0c2e67---73452149464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54bf2fc96ff97dee973ac6f3a944942e/tamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/47462209922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/lulesibajowakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89vkn9vbh0hvfk61e2hmrks0k0/powupuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/791a2247d55404aae2fc9a1ac82299f1/jajuwuribarejurisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8dd5a85af9---dajagivijimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/newido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/dozixogezosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30508fe82e31ec593ddaf375e08a4ad3/goganudedepiwotano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/58087526748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52829fa27afe2a5c8c005c7982df71fb/49559242461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/34801665058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/74484725993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffa8a9f2cc---namogubejixifexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97078224753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7da21d4c1---91730354587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f4bfaa863---gurogisalefase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7afe368ae9---parewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=hebe+in+shadePDF 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_off0000eb2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2E 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 22f78ce95d7ac530b2c4054d3ae01be440100d4b041c3da40bfd129f6165f01e
font_01_sfnt_off00010193.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10193 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A5 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 1cbbe486b57e51b9d8bebd3a6450462587abcd17557ac7de6bc80a65d5e761a6