Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 110c9e5992c34ec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5364051736ead5925f5c333072c680da SHA-1: 40b3f6fa760392bd92af5bfd5d5d80b8cb976e85 SHA-256: 110c9e5992c34ec5c06fc6e81990824c3e2ffc37fccbd2a81a709f99f2a5250b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a high likelihood of user interaction leading to a secondary payload or phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rch1seroke7buh1gacgok5jcc1/20919805977.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/21515875087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bea86b9af---61722876315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/sujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a67edb8a0---worufolikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57634920199e8ce81506f097e3085d5a/xovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/tuzoxojusapalezogigumewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gf6g9eci4ugovms0bgmlsu8i7/jibonirugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f0e937051c8a2ff80288d5aac8f557/jufogenipap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/55893733288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c738b6ed58---teniketowixepatonikope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/wupapezutitobisebumagomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/41584242041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn6baj17cfocqqi1767k4tpdn1/zosoremekubovifasutive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/88575821891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/oxumaxijegapejevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a948cb2a8c3---87332074197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-v-sochi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61710344038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ff2ffdc4a4e02c5ec23c7f8108b301/venef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c142c9dc2---ranin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607966ef926aa---kuzevolivozedanabavaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839ffd350be---69529408268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/mutomefosalojufixowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/68496262782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607174616b32e---74069725470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/nitodofozogoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what%27s+your+biggest+weakness+interview+answerPDF 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_off00010bf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF5 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 125c13babcbaaf7b8f257795de378b3dfc63a84080fe805d588a542ecc0245b9
font_01_sfnt_off000139dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000151f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151F4 10968 bytes
SHA-256: dd25b3fb81bd4eb850c20421dbeddd30fd5f093878a375098c6d5bc5d977bc95