Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11b9dedf4b7b0b3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:42:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d9956768a33f3600e2e815bcecf84d3d SHA-1: a50158efd5b15d9c2dbd2cb196a4993a71964435 SHA-256: 11b9dedf4b7b0b3d35e3f0493d1b4a4b8dc7c94e72485900bbe1d5853bf9016f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is a common tactic for initial access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+in+spanish PDF link annotation
    • http://izmirtavla.com/upload/file/rilekosojedinodixozumava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1accdfcd9b92b49efc0b1e72a6cb0b96/64867757824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85019368055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limadelimon.com/images/file/43549933714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop/contents/13851482479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrevdldb3mjp2t48431ubujo28/49613298065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-saikung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxatipunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44317540616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2iq5jo0s00lqansrt8v0ujcuo/45582278445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-nora.com/userfiles/file/lefawatexejujejinerez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tottazo.com/userfiles/file/47377852009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/10083376235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/14557923616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/jegasuzaxadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90964322429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/86607006648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxaxozotolesininoduxeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohdiabo.net/images/ckeditor/files/34499503038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fs8lio4b8f9e8j7p6trtgcjg5/74890367029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymjgolf.com/file_media/file_image/file/bosedijerumabozufupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/wowefetafubepizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109010145528683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/lafofanenuboditanole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e87a3c1062---dakumomikavonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundlight.ca/home/foun6192/public_html/files/custom_files/file/20040840444.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_off0000d8f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF107 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 0164b7c9b9898ecb4d9a375198ced3d2062cafef1f4aca7384817406a0fa16cc
font_02_sfnt_off000107b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B7 17532 bytes
SHA-256: 7510ab293289566abf73fd1140d007224e4d1c3a357d87e33dbb43eee94401d5