Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11965b07c79a38db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0b47dae3b463b5c440a4449effab813d SHA-1: 1272b8d862ef6cd57d8f1b83c63adde45f5ea85d SHA-256: 11965b07c79a38db6fc0283df20aa1115a0f45d68f82b4088928ed90d1f2cbbd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Numerous embedded URLs were found, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and one directly to an IP address, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious link farm designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/xigebinapabemorugug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910b8723776ab2e32e90ea8550184f48/tasogibagowivejilolomovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff7c29efd9---8529589831.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62e898e0179a3c42a06a19e3c4c93104/24195682540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/15656664338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e9d530ac9---14508363319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e175ebc6a3---90016424248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210619124802933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/98709660610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7574cc56a---waxazamogakovoxuzununuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/gowuniveponusizavura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/wimuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb34141a93c8b3f60d5f1e734b228be0/3840528876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99c2d3456e---91423791877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86eoc2bafrk71e27pbfmb42tc5/44306799244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/24254954350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c584fb5b8e7---7831183599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c28de5054---dekax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/53275404903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084387c531dc---xasotapurisojiralirekux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/63949859649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/26334234281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a30e51f6c---43561460215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=rice+water+good+for+plantsPDF 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_off00011485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11485 17756 bytes
SHA-256: aa487fe995dc803fab5f8ba9fd81d2061b4ddb32f215530c7f56c01e55a6e344
font_01_sfnt_off000142f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142F4 10928 bytes
SHA-256: de6012616758bcdb9e495758807179acd59a6e4e38b62f7bca7a1b4faf0d1921
font_02_sfnt_off00015c41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1