Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 110dbb0c34e992c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:57:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 19b1e00fe45ba4bdd02fdb084f59e91f SHA-1: 4b2619aeb8881219d9ba70e2c6af6f6413afe5fd SHA-256: 110dbb0c34e992c7356bda8c99c6f5a797ef985597a973a5df41b93c8dd8ab3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains malicious content or exploits. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. This suggests an attempt to distribute malicious payloads or engage in SEO manipulation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://seikai.jp/free_images/files/7401515818.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jufupudemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/9859446220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdb6d1c285c---9277137632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94a37a7026650223f0375b423dffd087/zolevolunojukawadewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3df7b0f2ed81c048851f8a4f6263b74/77459966660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hmgfinance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63484431966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8d73e476a---48721475793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/67050396459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/3928035000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f134884d4---89469472495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c70ce74477---65819724723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df9568a9e8---boxukobobiburav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/rawaremak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/tiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/63644756762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/75682042144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/gomuvagusewerakujoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/terekukub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54f71249a5---99708812859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c586a7723---10660585245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/wefuzeburuxejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608227b8ee9fd---xolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/56530388319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608979fe487e9---pijemidebewesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetypadlocks.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/zososevinonewukek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/68446510004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=factoring+by+pulling+out+the+greatest+common+factor+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000f60c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF60C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1E 18436 bytes
SHA-256: 21388d475152f39a050f2f34334d68758766002385b55ff9fbafe1f236e74a62
font_02_sfnt_off00013e48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E48 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 28de1bedcf7550980d50c02bfddc0a11add64fced16a28bf8d176d44d17395b0