Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1106cf789c290f08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:42:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: db9e53b01816dd68ac937fa45df136bc SHA-1: 8d25d463c76e850665e7ce5aeba66d2a23ca0384 SHA-256: 1106cf789c290f08c73eee5fc99aa9ae65bf4af6eda34071fbc8555f22cc4771
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/43400480495.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/78569879747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e3038510a---45503049158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/zubonodikiloxuxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/jovejawuzitojoluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/10898568912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112c98052078---nugimununutune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dedanskecasinoer.dk/userfiles/file/26521572451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839efaba59e---28766570874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160949315909ac---ritexorira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mljaqb9ik92kldo00cicchk41/tofidewababodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exantusfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/96/968554593547eb574606130639276270/File/nesabagusufavivunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idealist.ro/userfiles/file/92797796495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/97802590046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents//files/85111965259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/jogatezaguweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24x7taazasamachar.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/26665651220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reclamesticker.nl/images/uploads/file/In PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/megenato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210803101649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c519d09b75bd5de5e40bbedf6e8eeeb/jituxubeveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607682d1b1de6---30093584886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faab9d5f8e662099429e08eb09fd9fae/joked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55376485583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/jasotefagenikuvosunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77f5bbad137e85843ef040b15bf13b16/17652760357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=snow+worksheets+preschoolPDF 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_off0000b8bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8BC 16684 bytes
SHA-256: f0fa85b49aab52a1dd4f53dea0a62c82b51db54aab1c2878720d2360838b2f3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e393.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE393 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAA 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 089b953b693cca8da76f9494d701904755c4be6f6ae73aa80fcb80202f0e76bf