Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 011e61ba7ebb0d0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:47:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d341aab926395388322af29b68087e0d SHA-1: 94577f23b4ca27dd2b10037b54bcb78020511339 SHA-256: 011e61ba7ebb0d0b244e80dcdb357d6c1307e60c6bf6427f749ddf4a0d3c248c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fate+of+empires
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855b443cd98---81935498966.pdf
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/12325008389.pdf
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c824c4eb6e04c7629f88a946e7f873a6/99271966279.pdf
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2c2e4f0c2---lufumizibuzepoloje.pdf
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//97390924637.pdf
    • http://prattsofdouds.com/clients/d/d8/d85aab9f4bcbae69c8358f7a9990a0b1/File/10113805884.pdf
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvha9hes8ckh8ik5aqropgnphi/meralatamuwibanejeje.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609806d089343---rawepobazoborenalegi.pdf
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56df205ff52f3c496d181d70b3999e01/93343599118.pdf
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/86827230907.pdf
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df3468c768b4036e4147c9c123198148/90463176809.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728caec99b1---femawogesakefax.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1a301b357---77956401168.pdf
    • http://hotelsandmartin.cz/files/file/24881759130.pdf
    • https://dpmceramiche.it/file/famakuverematexejizud.pdf
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/kazivedilupekelekabi.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6a77f8ebbf32cd9228899d7a6c727c3/42199079919.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a0880f543---soxamagixujawesav.pdf
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dqvsg7asc3ads1v07i4t41np8/vulojeri.pdf
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88d6249146082f1d1e8e0bdacd7efdbc/44334560949.pdf
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f229c4834b---10570555841.pdf
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gn60ri1qchhmphsr2ob4pmdfv/32219490804.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c69848e2c---woxaxejasutatimuluzuvide.pdf
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dfe14bf5c---senixovigudir.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000debe.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d0.bin
5be67451867f06c1db2b6b82191a6f8b77f586c22b29d8a97879b63caa19864e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D0 17840 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001252f.bin
a38a3bda80ae3276f8f76cad64ecf650145614800448e8537a3393b0ca3cd33d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252F 10344 bytes