Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b13ce4c293df2868…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 22:21:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ccae4cb925da125a7015b9c4b5fdec24 SHA-1: 1597a590395b80bf209c5739d3179501c86c72a3 SHA-256: b13ce4c293df28687296cc913722a22d5c9beefa27af2f775802517906bb8721
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially malicious sites. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, which aligns with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c913ac357686b8c65a174b471ac0619b/62215944250.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef8a999904a903544d398a4ee14ff6cb/31653864945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/dizefiputunazig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/67722414591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/42202966209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18659a648a36f202435b6d5fcd9bff5b/fezuxowewigijuditajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b22d81a94b7d736322b79f97e9999a89/neparezakujawaveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poldercuptrofee.nl/site/admin/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/8297672484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75rtbgveca4nps8l1lrm40trq1/pebaxedozuvipis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7c92fac04a5d5573ee8abca7249b718/15761642282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c241a1bd69d2d27ec782c4aadef27590/dolifewoworugikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b19aadce63833274276ec892ccc141b/kedepimofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/65396396447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/926efcded1b1a668eff89dbe597314e5/92313368592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e25d32fc3---98596433740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92ff21e550f0e9f7d317083339030e66/xifenimibiziloman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c877aceaa---ripokosovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2f1039a4dbc12e403a57f1471006f0f/20014824643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/54058238451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/talibupenufibazikokupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3820d7e4c---figorabuwabawagimuzumoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bbc84e9ab---kibulijesagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/piwepemufugafuboro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728e44c94fe---26780506866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30f2b84efd4e95db6919337e9d19338/kexapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=hitfilm+4+express+system+requirementsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD8 10768 bytes
SHA-256: e97819ac4282f956a40c9894f0e0eecfad76859ffe3c1b2321c0ddb8744c5545
font_01_sfnt_off0001089d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1089D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120AE 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 885b9024a80bd539ee88f4c17c1e1fa3cc6dab475ff5b740ebf17c73a317c9ed
font_03_sfnt_off00013990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13990 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 2291d758022d30e72091b6b0610a222daa3c334b062abb92fd58e9842e258b8b