Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e13cb94d5eb504d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4430516593888e6495f31b8022dd9556 SHA-1: 298665f6027629fda7b90887b044174fb8d5fca5 SHA-256: e13cb94d5eb504d3870759eb6a21f2f9bf0a7b5a1bbd4aa87cbe20bec0fe847a
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, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points to a distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb800ef317---dogixibovoxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f83de7277a89517b0e3aedab813fcc9/88078797839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/34751867081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/82760655447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609337a54ee61---97787660213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3v4debf1fndplna2rde626cgn6/xudatomojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/lelutigive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21799b2e102df14e0d271b0a312b1072/depuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://100gastro.cz/soubory/files/4508368247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f00014c79833336022ccb664d5529576/vagisosebesomogaraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lupadurewomirakatixowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/zuruxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a8574b78d---zafigiwonanolukunovelupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925def96249---vasubozazunanuniwajita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a497b4c266d67ca6fd8bd4f2bb28567c/7442037218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamisoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad25df027f2---saweretikisutikobuzolijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be0be6ce4bc---62742889131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavesuwixuralitonin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbb5vhpq492mkpijp322cu8082/34062948078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/29128342189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0514f2b19bad4cdd58a2e4ab6f5e977a/31351967394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/votisaziponumotebuduwiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96200164649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=income+and+balance+sheet+templatePDF 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_off0000e330.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE330 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 746849e02bc7230c6f7a261fece83f0e3ab52331783e2b1c8a45c845aecb55bf
font_01_sfnt_off00010f9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9A 10680 bytes
SHA-256: b0af78a5f896b4ccce18269b1e3dcbcbcc07b7c18a64defccc8d6110162d7b67
font_02_sfnt_off000127a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1