Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 119313744bc982ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-06-19 09:10:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fceca3911a57c99517e15f18e1c8a6be SHA-1: 4444622624708db2865f61a16062e8b557cbc8e9 SHA-256: 119313744bc982ad220f6a4ba82039d129c28aa4c8942e5dd533880986a0e42a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic or distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=qwop+horse+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02vttokhr89hosltgt8h07s1o1/bopimixixipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eab2b70cd1b7ae403c11b5a56f0b1cb/xuridajokezuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/doc291bcllkih1asvggfmktp06/98268322722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/96446007394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080909043adf---17272342041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffcc5ffb66d360906c6d4a1528f9ebe3/fepaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/kirezulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s74kteick5usebvvnp10j8hq8f/noburazipisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/19076220959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075744aefdfa---zabotalofijutovoraved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7457093c3ea46ba5f50e5b39f8a34bc4/feviliwopexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/59501664259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80089b805f1eb1f1c8ed270748a63d3/73812005920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06a33e539d822efaf03fd19cbca3bb1a/11690570084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2800bcd8d---suganamamedijikadowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce8e00bd11b57ced41a7d919c490c63a/59186935601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a3a3662f41f239d0a0ed1bfd060811c/fupupadafomijun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000109ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CE 3264 bytes
SHA-256: 7487ca6e6be5fa3a6fac53583904aea206ffb7ac17f37a19e3d43bf5e79adeac
font_01_sfnt_off00011587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11587 5060 bytes
SHA-256: ab4223e6fe68633fbdeca651700f20695f72233fe69b6a2920a2218e2c44b7f4
font_02_sfnt_off000126ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126AD 11752 bytes
SHA-256: 48d970cfdccad9b343fec531b3cbffb13add23f269e1a78674e1e68ec4c99593
font_03_sfnt_off00014eae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EAE 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 354dce64f07f3d7acdf6a04edf763950ffbfec4edcbb4bfe17b65a83544077bb
font_04_sfnt_off00016316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16316 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378