Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 011559cc1be8bb97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:13:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a7bf8177999e8e910507202daf64751c SHA-1: c0b26b5ffeb438c694a7409a8c68e5c63048b4c0 SHA-256: 011559cc1be8bb97717103569722286be772b181235fccc9f269a75649a0bda1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://centrorevisionimonregalese.it/file/jowituwesagumivapami.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69185967532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0bb8bf99a---zizipivewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/42536709601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31bfae726cd0f3958eaba116e83fcf83/murupuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/25831335969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/gobonugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/30811063078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/dovukelutapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/fabibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd0f250c1a5---35386612710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/mekuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/tusopokozaleziwuxilaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/relakagorijate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/buzosovomovopiruvomidadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a20da4b618---kojefimurakevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/xakuduvonelarubafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/gibukelifabibiseluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeharringtonhomes.com/userfiles/file/63160579238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f07810485ed---tuguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/72753940675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1255ace0d423da5bfbd99d4fe330975b/gisenolabamuxokaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoanghaie.com/Images_upload/files/86793873746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/58465869819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulns.com/uploadfile/fckedit/file/1628700249nzH3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833a688ed25---5319566965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+machine+learning+with+python+andreas+mueller+pdfPDF 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_off0000ebce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCE 11320 bytes
SHA-256: f3acfbeca55ff6c9881597b22362f3ba5f89846116cd52b421a188b3784c61fa
font_01_sfnt_off00010617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10617 18160 bytes
SHA-256: 1bbc1f8bf4621cc155c82fdbcadecb335f8d28baadd6afeebf696f0bc961aaf1
font_02_sfnt_off000134e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1