Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1119b293bdc8a05e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-08-19 16:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 05a8871baac3cf704de39633ec11f102 SHA-1: 4d3ef349dd231875da6c4b55ec42a7b1cefbf72f SHA-256: 1119b293bdc8a05e8510dd0d7ee1fb9393190f2d99f7a320d21c144642ba30b4
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a large number of external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose, which is likely to facilitate the download of additional malicious payloads or to phish for user credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bushbuckridge+local+municipality+employment+application+form
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d35hfd3e9a08n2dcht8eu9fqr0/80260782541.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2kgnhfpkqn8nfed45puolbqepj/78397514419.pdf
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/razul.pdf
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d7c9e0771---bafinorukuz.pdf
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac1ea6abdbc2bb36eb139fe2ffc28db/69868622350.pdf
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4c9b6d81c278e85c95aba87be2022b2/kudogo.pdf
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/46746942017.pdf
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufopapusowumogudibaf.pdf
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/jotiwawilimilefes.pdf
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/kuzafedukujonufenejameriv.pdf
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070523ab4d49---34010637237.pdf
    • https://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xujogeseruxoxomer.pdf
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d03b6a89bb01e228711d8161abf7490c/23870423748.pdf
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/16600978203.pdf
    • https://craft-personal.de/userfiles/file/43060286905.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c6ea92db6c541652ca54c19a81f8eb/kibosixovolulabinafumeved.pdf
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/tarubonufepusetamob.pdf
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f496a25bd---fudexakafijalegaludup.pdf
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/vevapelewazuxutelaxum.pdf
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/62203099941.pdf
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonalemisup.pdf
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/kanezuvulowo.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae783649ecf---56384435871.pdf
    • http://mueblesdepladur.es/1/userfiles/file/99333639578.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e152.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE152 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f969.bin
ec5c7bb9abc911e23ef0110d75a02108c60116f3f7258cd14c019c2230bdba1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF969 11564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001144d.bin
2feed3e6830fbd550b7771de75621f636d511108d9caba12049eb2cce032e050
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144D 16796 bytes