Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b13cc4a17cc54b15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:15:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 95fe47684ce35de9a4cce582c1926f95 SHA-1: 2ede286c6bcedcf70f3379706a5e2917c647683e SHA-256: b13cc4a17cc54b15a5789209ffe220c5465a533680d795ac70f91d12efebc990
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 as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/59581167351.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.cfonewsletter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14193638290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e633177fb4---35506627733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nr36mt4vka4i8kqadbjq3ve30/79902710735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/vubiduzevadixowozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksdc.in/userfiles/file/93406879964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04d4dfcf8ee7cb95c8b6f54b4e2f709d/dujojexipiwobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rr8igknc69s1ugk51ed5q4576/bedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f52985c27a9afa93364aeb30325d9506/jatokedeluwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag57tocqnhlqj1ivdftfq77fvh/padopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892ffd67ce3---ruxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c988b36f4ff45ebdb4c5855a106786f9/572728983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f671b8722fa9e8e7d35481e8058aa38d/19540377600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linhkienhunganh.vn/luutru/files/61642040172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/musujatagenujokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/59392984723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/migosavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/miwavalafapuvekefikowixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379pcqfhlllo1oegnkkhmegntp/74282981543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9044a1d4b---45419619780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d922eb938d4---58366632914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jfa4s7j6li0442cdh9es6c050/total.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/tosoleduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb29ae07a3---bigiburibusabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightskiothon.ca/clients/4/44/44db284a3a4a6a3f34f8f2fa71918f98/File/59491872146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=solving+1+step+equations+worksheet+tesPDF 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_off0000d01a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD01A 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 8a575e2209cf20cac06e3219082bb7f1635316886720eeec7538913f8a678232
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB35 11148 bytes
SHA-256: a27549436441301d2bb1a442a9b324870bc005ca331eff34a9185acacc08d341
font_02_sfnt_off000114fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1