Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0819620b711fae74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-06-14 19:32:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2e775b95672738e06adc4ccd25923808 SHA-1: 3939f733490ca324e759bbbc5ec8e9b4231ce192 SHA-256: 0819620b711fae745b3b04c539b25a50af2f8d53173ca8d3b359a406c92dd262
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a raw IP address in one of the URIs further increases suspicion. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Shrek 2 online movie' and authoring application details, which likely serves as a lure to encourage clicks on the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shrek+2+online+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/zakolelasagureme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alfposrki27t4fm3tf3mmnbffn/rotafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t29iqo1oge5o3chtof7ca6sc82/netoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73bd081f2623b0ba594f058f4802aa66/jeturewiliwurugoxizeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/498mjss8v5d2963bhlkom0djj9/bukuwefegojozelikidir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/rixakekusoluwotetalusofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/zawupekote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc731078a9---sakofepibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/wujumalenu.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/83701695119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jl7fflp7r08kqjn0o38qhcapqe/jodefamunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/95875419367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef943342d6---dojurobomusuwufabuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6dc9d80cfa1bc5f73866f3ad1f7450/16471705091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607898beb8ef2---wurite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826cb65b555---vamijibovibelezuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7319ca4d49c82cc68c06103d78e3fba/33838595060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784bd586d83---50173633427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF2 4896 bytes
SHA-256: 9d34326a09dd17dc97522af7c0b0e2ddb08589e3c1219097dc6fa60f8a89b584
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC73 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 7461ec0044b109b96fb49e39301b7b48d32bdd99211cb6b229cdfcdc52a6a073