Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13d65807ef2ce1aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-28 19:59:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 746e426a50b13c6b9aa893d3d8d21b0f SHA-1: d64acf8a27703725855724f73b6dba1082364bcf SHA-256: 13d65807ef2ce1aad1ed8c434e83882fc088b7b4f8134480b57712c8697d535e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a deliberate effort to host malicious content on potentially disposable or compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.
  • 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 http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608928991a92d---ronexasugixenizevej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/poxopusufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legendtec-eg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kvfs309tu9d40e5fjsevsumrm2/24553470816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729226c1d3b---keterojibibotafadozuwoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/11311734251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5b3bf2f1a---ripirelesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce3925dc09e---mobojijudanoreloborev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/2799748303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franciscakeryandcatering.com/clients/61981/File/donupojusotozenuwawixoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/40857198832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161264c239042a---48911627561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/nobebijirabelano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangs78.com/clients/66216/File/87389307968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/58647958378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/volokivumurikonakebezas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/216132553e9b21175deb4435f9cf4596/towiwerusiluzewokijanifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb8168f582---mixelejizixokulifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/16471431763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae8f82d07d---26256197673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingchengs.com/jingchengs/ckfinder/files/20210628092610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608980c3732a3---70585552819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayernglobal.de/userVZ//file/vuxixenuzeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=let%27s+find+out+scholasticPDF 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_off0000de81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF693 18024 bytes
SHA-256: b835ceafd2d3c835e53bfd6de9fb2d58c8a91b7069327bcfe1d894936a1bbbb3
font_02_sfnt_off00012546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12546 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 3eb1615e5654632fe325bce7f997ba710e9b4ce3edf8e577ab399bca65b87bed