Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13fa0d8d8aed1550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:12:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4012d9814fa9340c78f27a6bf8154376 SHA-1: b9361076513323c5e4988b4efe21f7935c9db99b SHA-256: 13fa0d8d8aed1550ffded2cb9b3cf74a7d651dc475b25517b6209c18e9660114
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF-related heuristics, including compromised CMS upload links and SEO link farming, reinforces the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=coordinate+geometry+class+9+extra+questions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/14300661865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/86141298538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/49138096387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobelaxuwejapixawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/veruzupali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b796098b05e---17720295589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/wuzijoxorukawadexavaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents/files/ripufopivaluripiruwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_64CF760E8163E556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/fizinerubivizeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/bukofunapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730c031eb9b---59148618707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webspace.mysdam.net/images/newsletter/files/muwovivepibadidutiwolixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/74338699979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/99247207352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/70241940503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d9372f4f62823d14f4bf0652e9194b5/tuwaveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/mivaxexugozuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lalodanaregujunelomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ca0rkgm6bgun6ap78rkn3vrb/55483765232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/bikopakelanoxukuremub.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_off0000c1a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B3 18172 bytes
SHA-256: c745195e3a94032cff71834e28e9f2c81a41439d8030e21686aa060b0b432b42
font_02_sfnt_off00010989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10989 11624 bytes
SHA-256: dc80e562a41bfabad999857b03194fe6bfd3d98cef4e269850072055e1acbf3f