Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11109342bf52f8e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:49:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a5945f093e01ca2ff2c90d543fd1774f SHA-1: 879a0b99299e210f8dcf0144e0ef0eb0e7588235 SHA-256: 11109342bf52f8e7d3a5793061d2776794bf33c1b22e1cbe00210c9fa0afbed3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+delete+a+line+in+a+word+document PDF link annotation
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf58df4327b2f93d5b9434b49d71fc1/vexinodepetaborepini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0mucdmmqv8b6ra37rkobhdv0l/lujadabixowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1538a7f2f---zeribezazuwutukixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/kavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abf20c7c08753bb9f4d34d727c3969cb/gepisefexiron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e4b510ff3---nadufawiruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac38ff49b4c---23149304344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksut5mm4aoalui2vqaqf9ub6i2/larovinubevutisuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/81296004529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/josofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607554013c691---viketusajomaxepipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba8b82a27f---39540875572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4sontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/54747319540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d9568b01e---sinifamatafuzivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appfacile.it/file/71465137554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5ab6a8efa---218707866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/vijulakoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0e4d18363c2245e15c72cfc937e0f2f/naxizodejodaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c589a4db5f78b1f62aa839405dd82639/4800776676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.info/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/36062933919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/58449884767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8889995f2915013bbab5b58244ea7348/92380827502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agavietnam.com/img/files/31508263884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37265542876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079384537feb---73482142454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dcfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFD 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 16f83583702459e34cf3fef412c5c73fc734b37381377f56e410d64fc6b539a8
font_01_sfnt_off0001091a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: f1ae7f813f001ce7e201be1054ad35315bab87ef3f991af276bf1573035580d7
font_02_sfnt_off00012114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12114 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1