Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1100dad88c7ef6c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-14 17:59:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cd29808a5f8463477f14467c1e230256 SHA-1: 581f7dc58045905e93cea319cb93dd9102d3599f SHA-256: 1100dad88c7ef6c7ed744a8d59f4e41f73fa1bbd2556a4fe2f69cb2b91927330
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/37545963729.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fnaf7gash2t6jl5bictq785dma/34385859040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/74298828894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddaengshop.com/ckupload/files/50001915555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64483657672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f9442fae4---xuxebanikonunisalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/78547256079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d9eeb8ff72---tojanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca73029620e---venebudupufibanikajuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolescuderie.eu/userfiles/files/605822274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.org/contents//files/nulitigolirukazikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sifakarafelusunivesokegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210530081301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/lakixowujoziwuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/wumuwomuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sibukorekitowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivieahk.com/clients/5/51/51325344bd1517f257d6959d5350918e/File/pexaginakapamudito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609106dcb2c70---loniwuxirawugexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a902b0ebe61---damujagozeruku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlygiaylynhua.com/upload/files/67606255320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/82175802188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab915157c5a---67249669877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/46994877842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixel.bg/img/file/xodebenulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f37b390e8b3ce10d4875f682f83c6d8a/jobobuxolale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/morefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d009dc3384---25438198250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+does+igo+navigation+costPDF 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_off0000f588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF588 10916 bytes
SHA-256: d4737fa057c152df86eba021bce56f340469d9f66838233ab9af1124a969baf8
font_01_sfnt_off00010e80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12692 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 797bccf5ba05620577aa0420542d4864fa6f723d0ba0d977141c2db1080f8f02