Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11b9540576b7f02e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:03:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: df106a48e57879148ec22ddf31b242d3 SHA-1: a3c66bd8008c07d17a2142c3c304cd5f5aafbd5f SHA-256: 11b9540576b7f02e1d38d484a339d18ec371abfd07e8751486a600ff8e19f145
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 installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=agency+problems+and+accountability+of+corporate+managers+and+shareholders+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f3f73a3cb---gogojujitokibowor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/53378517069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/giluroberin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/telesimozogobofaxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32947364720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/59068582602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/nuvibatelatewogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/tagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/33476371570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxewewelinotarenafimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/43764003957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/61632910561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/dibazodasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68943130309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff37cca5893d0d901e343057f48b736/niposowiwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f16c79e9e---luguwodifolusafuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/11078969766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motiv8workout.com/up/files/32672832644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9afbcc52a4982b052936e19976c46e9b/kojubolopotuwezivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/81695279938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4aecb3482ccda219f7f74eb03fd4002/31422259171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c971e68be47---pokevekeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/nabefipunodunizorirafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/59092343279.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_off0000e366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE366 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB78 17788 bytes
SHA-256: c5d9763c8ab83d6902c2361ee9b438988f9b0616b68adc90abd9540e457a4796
font_02_sfnt_off000128c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C9 11404 bytes
SHA-256: f1c5f77bd4ca3085cf15f17cd5504aa87743d1b4bba728aa7f64b38560573d9a