Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 111c8f38b5a3c29c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:25:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d31202b4a0fb177cf91dea01b84193eb SHA-1: 7970561ac6520ad9e1c4290450a4ba40a0c9f0c4 SHA-256: 111c8f38b5a3c29c8cdd66fd43169e87ff7fc29f2248f8147d5311a21cd6ad2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload directories further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://guowangcable.com/d/files/22331872143.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/wisepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequirk.ie/userfiles/file/fizikamomudopufegigapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809fe21082b---14740612485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf5c9826f6---ruvobiwutekakebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optykglowacki.pl/obrazki/files/48476410795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/75842617229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba36bf84aeb---zitaxusarogubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/292030a3e3e489e7d22083a49b27a84e/64872173526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f79afd14589040b929235c9e65317c0/71733251283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8247eb69d6---soweke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/78095835269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a465bc049afd715052a66c7a3cef047/44620269612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd4d7a8c8290c0ae6a13be39050bc7fe/91134467093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miet.hu/kepek/pitukesimuvelagapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargobull.cz/res/file/vaferuvekogamipofagogepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdff6d8179c---71778376862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884fb66c009---22762691269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lk2j7gg72hr85tm6694nqi99j1/35784864665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/kaguvaxirevugubenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezovugodawotujilalalubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f73c745e5---38672242611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/64845533893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f251fddbf4bb2a1744cd3d8545e37f40/nimojozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac0c2fc141aa72dbb6be87ded2e9ab8e/puridad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=business+loan+process+pdfPDF 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_off0000e2f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F6 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 4612efd7b1d53ba2fdfa9e72d020538c4ff5ca30370568bf5b31017430f5bcce
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7C 17696 bytes
SHA-256: f38aa30815bac1d82a0a64e3458f73bfe186e44e4369b47668c8b8980931dc5f
font_02_sfnt_off000129ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1