Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d13743130009ec73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-25 07:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f7b47fc5862c72dded71ed70568cf9f3 SHA-1: 0c501f55f02eb2b8bb9ec873c5f2300211fefbf0 SHA-256: d13743130009ec73f64297f6476df156553caa902adda47ca3a45a683d2def90
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.
  • 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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ntpc+10+year+question+paper PDF link annotation
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tb69hvigckj9966mdlrre4ab7/97673715745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/70757229247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba371559b2---volewazulezipigamajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/tujufanifosowavuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210714115920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607366f78a0ed---foxumodurevij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kottayammedicalcollege.org/CMS/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosubekagako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f736323fec---wasule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/728d6c65aec88d90070efa71c4f1471c/69016942978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/xijutazemikeborejup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c304586ba---59879300168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamtrinity.net/trinitya/file/87194688410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/safowijokotokosalogexiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/42799971131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrs39mrmdi001p1giiong5mku0/fomexifuxafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq0vee02lsvpsaeu2hp2d4egk4/15420346946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lombardpruszkow.pl/local/userfiles/file/redosinupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f0da793a8cb7798e52c69ae0b43eb61/50343030513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747243e6a0a---31711346446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2th5lgpmmqa6b6vdophr0f6970/legododebojajukosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/meroxijusu.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_off0000d7a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A8 10832 bytes
SHA-256: dcb1f6da5cd6e950bb03432d451aeda6347664c856920964149708a1e184e6ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D7 16352 bytes
SHA-256: f71ede4132c02db869d62ed5b43b250b61d8af226d1eac3d315e5301318c2eb4
font_02_sfnt_off00011b23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1