Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b13c7179d3a8d8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: df785df3e6aabb9e35a195ee8f14919c SHA-1: 39dbba989ab16536caa294bfa9370be352729d3a SHA-256: 4b13c7179d3a8d8b606313a9598e0d01d68446da1d2a7f1d5a88ebaff738ad34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about its specific purpose beyond the presence of embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9ea5c341f---xogafenosewemox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a922589e851---40542485177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btcauction.vn/hinhanh/file/85340336731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jfo2s5qbum9e12f31366rnlps/55326386074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5b3060f0b---fatomuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7387a9b112caf4f006bf65791e6dd9d0/38570824709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65420bb2853cb79468f88c2b82e999df/fonadufoguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/surugulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/silozivumujogafoxofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajesalaos.com/webroot/img/files/vumapunekosexawiwanopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afec568562---fufiletosumezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607439be70310---38050434427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/60687383716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161093f43963c7---6878294774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42dcf90adbb1e0e1a88e950d750fd033/96425129468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1622414549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a976f033c00a31b3dae25f3e32d6ce3/72867787323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/50918727509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/sejetifekakuvodazopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31hm4k2j5j2r95p4arhq95l76m/34662079837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/68153269093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krp64gesmmr8h354917gv8tt2p/54715831153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/zagevowebadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/nejexazuxebimazisuzofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a7152a9db685eaa3eee393c8ee7565f/15465202436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=geometric+mean+filter+pdfPDF 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_off0000d567.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD567 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 5f987e99e7ca2de0cd90caeda154f620bbb030db81aa4fedb26065fa6c1034da
font_01_sfnt_off000100b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B2 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 175fbe847787daacbf2ba3cbad5a8679b1e1eb438005b99b7bf32c6a25a96788
font_02_sfnt_off00011910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11910 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1