Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a13299196ee41750…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: cdecffc70ad9c30e4ff2bb055b75def3 SHA-1: c1a9128ee740e9266034ebc9befe4075e28a6fc4 SHA-256: a13299196ee41750eb1cfb07a2c737969551c4e281bb5de997f3d408d1729535
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may also attempt to trick users into calling a fraudulent support number, further reinforcing a phishing or scam-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/pivezeta.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92339176255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isf6frhi29fbao03t68brvker8/bogelebuvizido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/febuxelolowazuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075aec327719---lejoxizepidajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2618160fb4---jusupujefopode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210513181953864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/98896091915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/436f3f5b7ed605430e358ebcb56303c6/xadivufevikupazemodunuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301b31eb7ee---wopazojemejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103f50605a6f---zotisekefajede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h0glrdemrbfgtp3cq9pbem522/68312864470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75c873d811---vonebajinasimuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/15048399756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff693c7f53---tuzozudolagolijotakal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883c03b6c55---75865231718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e30d3a300---68379542847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c8c72b4d6---86436545054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/922508b1982028d2bd21caf777a3dcfc/13505169948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9eca982eb3923d4625e971f66b0c1b0/92993069561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/7152519434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heimundsicherheit.de/userfiles/file/puweburelenokozofuxipenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/92892240433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charteriraq.ir/basefile/charteriraqir/files/komogoduzujixalifobut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasael.com/userfiles/file/80134901663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domingo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76067798064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=merge+and+rearrange+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000cba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA8 17824 bytes
SHA-256: f119e700a9f0a446786c576dae9ba94d9408baa89c3d43ee71f3de214db49390
font_01_sfnt_off0000f997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF997 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 378e88e100756a44d76f2ca21692673778e7fab95ac8b7587d242ca179c470de
font_02_sfnt_off00011019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11019 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1