Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 112149516a7c9367…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:19:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c35750627bcd11d84203e90f8531c4ce SHA-1: 1eea7346505d248435c32b3648295ea7aa9dda49 SHA-256: 112149516a7c93672769dd1feff0183f86b49b24994a19ebb64eac49ed90d515
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely for distributing further payloads or conducting phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4h9a5rc0qec6c4tobdfhavegcq/selagegonafobomi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083da241e84e---nemanalajigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc4686014a---99414286458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generale-bureautique.fr/gdb/files/file/ranerarutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49adc1088e4661381b176fa7c54987ad/42794891996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/494b646684894547631a15f0954ed516/garogelowupiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luyenthidhcanhsat.com/Images_upload/files/72893029702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/9763868605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/zenonofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/wobomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/em0lgumunf7vqkge0sbh0v4qs5/welamilujufimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1alrn2e396tou7pf1fcbu1u9l3/58260558526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c47d5459f11acf5aed71b7be6eb6109/56960820700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a84b3a3e295ff42ff2e04f0632efcac8/sijefupalaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/59487510048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/030116459597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a56de49a5e---futiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a45d3e16e---lepubolunaguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3d5d2b2eec6a12c2f1ac73eeb868628/wogopikatebamifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45c8427b80---nifegego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e995c4a37---gazafebubivifosixexitiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3624b63dabe6b162a5e80642d69a7e1c/44867799537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4ebb3e67de8e0e8cabd4da8d24662e3/5895561546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impactcleaningserviceskc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e281b4fc4eff03e607aeae0db5149ff0/14817059994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4363ac51b---81387332194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+pdf+to+xls+online+freePDF 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_off0000f083.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF083 17184 bytes
SHA-256: bc25d05d62375aa70b7f9fad46e880cec513b166062d4a76095b8de4efa38cbf
font_01_sfnt_off00011cef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CEF 10696 bytes
SHA-256: d4807aafbc3101eecd12ae0eeccc749c6ce24e6fbf0725227ced585cf050f365
font_02_sfnt_off0001359a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1359A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1