Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11a045658139c9f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:19:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: eae1101f1b66f850060f7c8099809fbc SHA-1: 8bbed20b6b764a8e63ec2435ea7a2bbaadac9951 SHA-256: 11a045658139c9f2dc84a656f82db124264fdbba1076914f78702561aeb89eac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external, potentially malicious, websites via a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://phunhai.net/upload/files/sezusesevorewakojaba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c8598160a---79984749946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vvvl8gpl7gu1hk3coa106vl1r/lugurasebubunudubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa95a7759d4---dezuvalagonopupezofore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/55169349872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///vejivupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0808cb90edb43769e845b164d934575/sixeguruxezijutugozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c533b169935---takazarojojopuwoposuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr7sdo0not30285k934l0avbp4/3218146349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608798b09d13c---wekozinavogufuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/kopebizego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/50963973596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cf4b049df---vujotabupavezulivivuzus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748f866d67a---guvugubojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021060619120228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944820e50da---talipemogudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/45142506613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793af5ab7d3---zolivufobeperara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8fdfb299a6f2f8e495dbc9a22127a0/padesofipomazodufolozojar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ea296a1acac5c2cad10db3ed69099bb/66832199976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/vifisopadovikipigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd502frquv3c21s4punt43nsgv/noxopiguxaxafele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a65f1d9f82---kuwonugafokeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7c6079dab98bd5179533fe5ee48ad4/tazovakirufojabagibusewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=additional+file+for+shadow+fight+3PDF 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_off0000f121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF121 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10938 10872 bytes
SHA-256: b174f449621dfc77ebd69bbc9cd5bdee784459a02bc0adc72bcf864a2ed304e9
font_02_sfnt_off0001222b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1222B 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 69f3dd8cea5e1a63f9c2e935860367af77270f40f61c6372843f93486df3700e