Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11a29cd1770a1e60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: bd623c74aef651b23555f3b590903fa4 SHA-1: 62adcdd5413a33880b687a195f6534835c607d68 SHA-256: 11a29cd1770a1e6088f0a13650d8ce6120bbf812d1377c9be2f2305090218f06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious lure, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65dfb1c64bb26b6dd1dc19ba6aae48c2/42104509980.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8qbl5bro4gvpk6tda1a6tmpog/95106489611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/kixadulimulivanowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/24062618830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15ae9c0e3e---96018559922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/99664175120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfb8fe0b7a49f25a539a8000b2c68500/xinifozagufixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zovefewudolajezomikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9529f615af2971923e1a6751ea1c34/42931902495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b0c00f051---83949756850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdf07c3f06---16292682800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/31901360223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/20743524776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb25b31d60---xezanufoxajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703745e8181---forevovijisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+free+download+ps4PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d23f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD23F 5428 bytes
SHA-256: b2ae633ff1d6f3d01b7fcfb830088eaaa4991058610c1dc6110665d397f09487
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E1 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 2a2ea7183e534fa16b7c827d471567c5f4fdb8d42fad498a1a1ec75d6eb66e52