Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb13b010b70d9677…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-09 13:40:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5e4621f899c73555cfe51ca6deaa6d51 SHA-1: f8cc93bf17005e6bfc78ee07c1097d7e32008b2a SHA-256: fb13b010b70d967794cd7a71ca49a723090ac52ea60f358cb4d06e24a14807e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/535ae46ef0675742ad49cc58f164f536/gaxatozivotitisixotuxini.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ae4b71c76---fekovuwomapodamajabanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410be04043ea0ce8a30eceb7fa7711c8/868650945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/112253223022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/87326052030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdc318a525---xamigovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/92053129297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a9f4711f3454332aa6d4403b7554c58/93202998473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208d8ad7f80dfca1610119c52fdcd0f6/padejibojoxijitenogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hpklo9k98nnm6mgn3f6mhjek6/sorewipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julozotetigoduvijipajolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtipa.com/upfile/files/2021/07/17/68526626450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/913f08e170c37146627771eb0a667b53/romirenobomovamibuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c747703b4---37112921679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/41133097379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9c26c095f---56968313452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/fikufapuwixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12949255319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3c4f553de---riwufutiroxubomotipiketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-28/20210728123826577442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/48531497111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743d6d1b402---xaseju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cfd90afedbbc5bdf56d6af61474580b/42414028503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cbb6d3f73---vegusipexiregim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+cutover+strategy+in+sap+implementationPDF 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_off0000f017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF017 11096 bytes
SHA-256: dc6879837d171afc1edf6c7d46d1b4577f5eabf925e8c593d9722d30cfa765fe
font_01_sfnt_off000109d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D3 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 6535b74b5e0b00c2dae28072dfad03b0534ed1f8cfae1b88499d7c9692626dae
font_02_sfnt_off000136fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1