Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11a9dda9319a83b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:09:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8af27025baad04c56ee1d09e94dae53e SHA-1: 8271470484cd8cd36035f21b36e945ea199cb8cb SHA-256: 11a9dda9319a83b28090e32b819253da7919f5403fbda2bd27f2b535b70d8914
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that likely lead to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further support this, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external, potentially compromised, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16207904608113.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49a161cad0d6f3664d8faa612fbfd067/4739988690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f88fb163f---4250901055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da12179b02---piwuwufedifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607193dece686---pakofawukaxisaxepusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b7a0bca9f36c4aa6c4a1c0248f2d32a/jutikegavovufiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/foriseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/3610715251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/68371393537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m28e1ic6jf9pfb6brv7ndsht8p/tobomolubezezagevitepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afda22a0e23---lesomeribumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/68675360400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectprojects.ro/userfiles/file/30354585424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleitalypizzany.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/33135780605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd1b6f129998fdb6fa431c402d8976a2/26406369065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorisemitchell.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30633680987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gospel-streams.com/asset/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senuponituxujike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/84031772544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89217053014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834b76b9791---namuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macphersonproperties.com/clients/876251/File/29880726743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ph%E1%BA%A7n+m%E1%BB%81m+chuy%E1%BB%83n+%C4%91%E1%BB%95i+pdf+sang+word+onlinePDF 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_off0000bb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD338 12276 bytes
SHA-256: 386e3440f14c09e45dff61f605f5457ec999587d66dc4ffe7b6904470415a51c
font_02_sfnt_off0000eec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC1 20856 bytes
SHA-256: ace08753d69706b4b22b1dd7bc59d7df682d1bbf9b99048b56f562c9edfb5e71