Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c13f136f78ad2051…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:09:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: e4a11bafa643dbeb76fce4e2c7b3c13a SHA-1: cd5019941dc3b78c560bb56c87734cd8fde30ee5 SHA-256: c13f136f78ad2051bdd7cf59386e494e7d4397c6b539fdbf189c571c01c4e313
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. This structure is characteristic of a link farm, often used to distribute phishing content or malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607723a6aadac---70700332501.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/34062456117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa6a75a7b9---pofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/38286067056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/87241987201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0se3775vo14f0h6255uts3um01/42753506341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806cf658af5---luzagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domainecomps.com/documents/files/minagedamezenaserimolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bc0a5fd11---madexepikewamupekowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/80406522143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56819894041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b8b02b144---duselejorokeful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765d033bf52---44522093689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziwamozatifolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/godixozexakafuruxutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/94166524671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/42145256978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/99282259919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/20528826046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanurturizm.com/rsm/files/30996456137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fada2a1719fc3ab9c38ae7d01894afcf/7777406917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinojjacob.com/userfiles/file/27340725987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c70c13dcc23c3509486fb3aade8367/lavalumozukurod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/jazerorijemosipaguvakogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/41762720930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontivo.ro/userfiles/file/rikoxutebogerisepemura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=sidereus+nuncius+or+the+sidereal+messenger+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_off0000c8ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8EC 16324 bytes
SHA-256: cc344c63024f89536b0f623ec70ac45acba2b79387c59541c7578e470f48dd6f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DB 11244 bytes
SHA-256: d309627114ce20adf9808e775acd3d92952251b47451b5aa82b730fec7258193
font_02_sfnt_off00010cc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1