Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13d3194f1bfc7998…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-10-09 22:49:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 9b9135a155499bc308dda6297339fb90 SHA-1: 3350b0f45a49204b9a7de8623531e062ff402ab1 SHA-256: 13d3194f1bfc79986c480585b048576423b0493a1595bfbb9cfa6c38b775243f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised sites suggests an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+increase+oximeter+readings PDF link annotation
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec60ec9c0a2754398acdc130e1faab2/fazidumowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dierenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/bowofoxudokegekovarebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/kotojunovevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://confidenzacsapagy.hu/upload/55017282025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godalizemijimawomuxujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/74510705512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knhct2bb0hfps9q4ism28h0vu6/raxixarufexemodane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/95602846319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifebeachvilla.com/uploads/image/files/ziwofegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melabo.com/upload/files/jilowagikotuzakuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161599ac489960---81016350733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/jolofiwugixoweka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents/files/50141873473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/14016920470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boonfagrandhome.com/user_img/files/wimizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c6233b486---ramemiwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/4728954098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a908f4d56d---40866157386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81430237387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ej48afr7828s9kggeb4lc399eg/nizerowupakunafodiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/vebiripawujimino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owop.challengersports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaluxegewomajexepodazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e377e00c68---gosamamate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615c84b16dbd8---86663954136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77807251031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC0 10844 bytes
SHA-256: a352ca33959873a26ed782189f186300ebeb5b43635ba770ced494fdb998f467
font_02_sfnt_off0000f69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69B 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 89311140061b17c512b242bd0116373a848381712e25a8eb931a54ca8f70b2d6