Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11b93792e6e74038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 06:10:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ea421c0108638c7605f26f658c63893b SHA-1: dbb86b9517ea01ec8003cebaf5311af50352e1c1 SHA-256: 11b93792e6e74038e718a19074b9f5a81a12c2e9817aaef68d661ed20d06d55b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=salary+slip+word+format+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/41551570035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea35142122---73235975928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0p3av2k0rkj3qd5jmu77a2m33/48904779275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/57696081503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldv4c15bjfvdsjbb8jv7ds3ngn/nofozepuzaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8da41be9a8---80142405838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1707e61492d41a508d2d203861dd0e3/duginizototol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad0c50af9803def4962bcb83c3c9b7c/47696910366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tb5ddr585rbpj42glrgb7buue/jujewapoxavafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c689133bdd7c91d59a6a931a0644189c/wisugunedibudokeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb226cb763---99599574165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/dojunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/gokukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17pu9nlm5chhj63c0gu3kl4hl5/jinebutijokoloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcf1fbd0de---xejuvarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/jiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794474af9d6---67126810435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ltf0cks0vk6t7gduv182moju0/bajumubanatemazetajow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807cf128158---ruzagovaxanilotuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4fe4afa49---gumatelajalexese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/80662764981.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE386 16676 bytes
SHA-256: 287d51281bf40b639f13c423e1e3b66f666d78e63b182b348d7f2016b7e2a770
font_01_sfnt_off00010ed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ED9 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 6a2b8830d281a09494bd48b1e11a40078b85a837364c332cd305ad79d4efd174
font_02_sfnt_off00012835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12835 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1