Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11778eb10003b4ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-08-01 11:16:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 68cd9263c18eb1dff0c3e8eea5ad6195 SHA-1: 6e21025db2be637bce0ab806ec0f86c0126db045 SHA-256: 11778eb10003b4aebff2ddb9c762f02f41a859144f1eff4bac24bff7d88179f3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. This script likely redirects the user to external URLs, as indicated by the numerous embedded URLs found, some pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B4+%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80+%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8+1.6+02+%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B5 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogixel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/73765287925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/lutalafare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents//files/41892914058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m429vu1ocibtsoup65lhmiks53/topobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0pgdv0obnmvvs3s7kq93fel8q/15219160122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htcable.cn/d/files/relufixunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/83503014011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/salemuduvewavovadajokizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/77073778736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be2422aae8f---kewilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stcforanebanglore.smcim.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavagonororisuranebateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cb68884b2ef45645cf148799de316ab/74672237201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/41275317807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d67698bc3919a92b42521ef4d12f8eb/50044533670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba3c246384733f6ab908709728b4787d/30718174669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21079778157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/fazowevulevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8c4b8e5b3---6306940802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/nagulegaribe.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_off0000f5e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010df8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF8 23916 bytes
SHA-256: 1c88f497de2741915b8eef1d308aa7f94db2716dddb548885bc81dc0806778d6
font_02_sfnt_off00014996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14996 11900 bytes
SHA-256: d528e902fd8eba9bb8d00431bad36783783b283c1336d89c1ab0399418678a97

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