Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 112c4219800f7988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-21 00:36:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 35bc36eaed85e537d716cf76889f7c38 SHA-1: 92f6d944e4dd4f1a0154bc6611dc6c54f96dd141 SHA-256: 112c4219800f79887cd8454c39298b0aedd267b1d05a19232f679d87266a199c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading or accessing harmful resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=burlington+books+new+english+in+use+4+eso PDF link annotation
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f60c62e697e---13380854965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b19f2941db---rituraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/88479341658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/wekevosasisisutanelonumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tomb0a3l177g07htu9ui5gubt1/63580621572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/rosekuwuboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/477bc90bd5a3cdc443cc5c690cf6787a/1134010617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sintsprev-ms.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesalujorijagitoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b4edd4172f2fa6089c4cc1b91af038d/navebemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sassyissy.com/survey/userfiles/files/30083838464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d64a116f510f083eb69f6b15b5ddd16/77447016201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/50185405458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a78b8b7392---puropam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab774627d2---tuvesosesuxoxesilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608280cba7740---tijegilenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610db135214ec---sudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/89142452127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78dd7ef61ad88d56532d8ffdb53c00c7/sofudukiwevigelijilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/nazuravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpcns6vaq9uav9v1dhqmrcqtb0/gosilotonemosegagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/faxixonovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/waseketevaduvaredeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/40673618134.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_off0000e1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FC 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 5eac27199a46f97bbf11493361aaec29b8bb1f87727236775046f352a8c059dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fadb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADB 18532 bytes
SHA-256: d8528cae1f87119ae7d5f61bbbb18553ccf1949ff47a021ed285ba44e2792d11
font_02_sfnt_off000129c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1