Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 513613fd67a07c8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ba5d76f939181e8df168bf2081784a26 SHA-1: e7cfa204800b176451dc3b72b5844592ad4ee9f7 SHA-256: 513613fd67a07c8c6e72fdc7400007ff4b5eb29dc4220dbd62fe5d0dd1cc3c71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs extracted point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious content hosted on these sites. The presence of numerous links and the nature of the hosting suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/kejemif.pdf
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/46240482164.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70dvp5t69iibatpke4g9rjrbu0/motor.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/098f59dc95edccbaf84b49654fcc817a/98065906803.pdf
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840ea7a945d---44702836865.pdf
    • https://daismene.it/file/88127117602.pdf
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/wowujalem.pdf
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/971959a02bc8a1ff494069aaf97acc5e/47590082619.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3352b5789---24538960634.pdf
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/87737758423.pdf
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d698cd997---77275122163.pdf
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed57288149fc25ec9924b44ccd8fd7d9/sosise.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e0aa7c6a1f05f769b09b66574d9d258/radanimikej.pdf
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/31958247141.pdf
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798cc264125---zufemutawawikikojom.pdf
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/sofewazevamije.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bcc3a0dc9300d202139e04ff1e62222/61846684824.pdf
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e87ab6e5f---6150497328.pdf
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2d99bd38e---soziganosopudipi.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-21/20210621212949491131.pdf
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-13/20210513222604756164.pdf
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/237ae0d90804741bce6841fd854ab018/45288827868.pdf
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/70011140287.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c245721463d95ef3d8f845a7bc83235/lumepugafutax.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=take+it+meaning
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c1a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1A6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9bd.bin
d9a3ee06382ba0715f4754fcb40cf50e3b70abfb62f32549a80711bfe40bba7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9BD 10072 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f021.bin
c4c0874b720a95624a21f5258e7601ff3d97d3dbcba8d4f31d98a77baea1f8ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF021 16128 bytes