Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13add1ec435d766a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:09:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bde46456299a293298f0dd0620229e69 SHA-1: 9494bb1bfaf97348376183d3e8a866bd28376f6d SHA-256: 13add1ec435d766adfea9354059f4bf2b53cf8e0936c374024a844533b32bae6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with phishing or tech-support scams. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to distribute or host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://badoza.net/userfiles/file/83075847304.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/buxifivutatapakivema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944e7e27546---wifukujoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edf19dd8bda---bovoluvulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/678925ebd30cd112aa09bf71c5f6dcb7/tozivodeloguvuzinerogebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca5b20d987---gamokigekirewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/80125757936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/japaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/27772878933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1s1a033nbsc1d8h0o7p1okmao3/95248367511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612bdb56000ea---mufupuxomuzerabamawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55d1624eba---10637132276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f571eea3c4---nufuzorigijuluwukisimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d42a5e7dc5---22812991180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6f390ed3c5920ae4634df7f53f12ea2/33659877756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodobashi-church.com/wisugesejamenipidupeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/25767792688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/pudazibefirejifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06mp52hu8ve3vmcd6vkfss2lve/bajukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611da401bc080---sunaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16293945509931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99231165a6619371b223896ef58eba75/79546961526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d12095b3fb---fixuwuwasibita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4tv64dvtrbh1knarmo5kk59l1/68775823594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=a+love+to+last+seriesPDF 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_off0000e1d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D8 18676 bytes
SHA-256: f4ffad79b5fe9279308fb736ffba94c9e676afa195c6bd3f6ff1fdfce7d20d6d
font_01_sfnt_off0001123d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A54 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 5fa95eebdec156b7ab34d220d4754194913c3b9f97da80ac3c9de12b18ba6186