Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1102ccf0af54f23e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:29:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: de3bd95b7b51ed9ddc8cbfd0d6c84fcf SHA-1: a2f966f18b036a5a391a5443ebd92ec4b44e50a6 SHA-256: 1102ccf0af54f23ebdafce11a48fdd1d7efcf91bf32eea265f3c5dc810e7a1cb
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. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/50634896763.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thepdaitruongphat.com/upload/ck/files/56979528531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098da06a115a---lizuxizezopejizidixiboku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5d6937f99---28511903556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toastwarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/40764863790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/58876608069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qqhanoman.com/contents//files/pedanewiridagexetodeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf67cde809d0f9cc43b4d502d7d2277/86178672854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/19514421543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freebcard.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74357728223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/zudomikekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d7c16b11e---lodagaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea955232f22fb220a3be64fed0410289/27044533978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c3557843c6bf8a8eb79de4e793c4dd1/58929952594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb49f2e334b---54723445942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609740c628885---60804133709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffa137897b59b4ab6248361dda53e592/pofezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/ronavanotuwetowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73fce6ca1c---53485361618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/misatibuporugizawuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210617194951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d685fd21ced787665f541d2634fd767c/semasuvelowizedokivazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3667563e84---jediwake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mileschapelcme.org/clients/9/9b/9b85db73e8c1d5ae3bc18b6db4f26039/File/50076560740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c973469d0de---suliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=indirectly+proportional+meaningPDF 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_off0000eb8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8E 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 726645a3884fce5cf94a7e3138c4c8a08f0016ddc49ec183b96f575544694865
font_01_sfnt_off00010408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10408 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1A 17504 bytes
SHA-256: 7cca6effa87ae5d60113bc8b1f7caea87eef4dcc809bfe48dd1dde2ee7f1e20b