Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a13e563c4c4b934…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9f07adc78dfd16ea1f4a004c509255aa SHA-1: 415d0f4bf95e303aaa8944f9ed2c43f46d83ef16 SHA-256: 7a13e563c4c4b9346a1b1c3200b5a44a9b4a5af51e6e631813325309d82724b9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URI heuristics and the ML detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9773

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convulsi%C3%B3n+febril+pediatria+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://myveolife.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7489ddf21689819da8d2c1a1ffd2bde0/sevufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/2545711326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/30179124547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a40eec9e76---47020825073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/48661566906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regigemorigidobotamimage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2e167b65dc---8021915675.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://diamantina-joaillerie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rovojadamulijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/gezelajatikap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd630192e9---baloxuzosufibubefuxebiwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruedi-leuthold.com/userfiles/files/17041381200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62d00a2b07---10214740136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f2ca017cdd29ea4611cad222e8d9866/18592254816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210816_7010DCD8D28B0254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bda5e980d---67880906510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/55446965201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquamedicasatumare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79450357686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d36233ae44b35dc48fbd18cd542c3d80/74862556346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediliziaunoaventi.com/userfiles/files/luvovotujuxafoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/84206443445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/10796326718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607622a3d3b74---69550583639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/fodasolaraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falewubemirebedokunadati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blindnow.com/userfiles/file/28429915455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bivapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e43c25507a8---8327285747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00012bc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC6 10964 bytes
SHA-256: d097d0f08f62d362cdc8a4c1e52dc29f79f17c0c6288451eb6269d6541fdd8a5
font_01_sfnt_off000144ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144EF 20412 bytes
SHA-256: f24fd149b75db32750b0e8820438d6c4b16c00c4b56d7b86b2953faad4705c00
font_02_sfnt_off000178b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1