Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11ba28a0d7e9c282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 10:37:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b323bf05ea9baedf451df9935ae26b02 SHA-1: 4c796045baf9ab788040ebce39425a6967dabd01 SHA-256: 11ba28a0d7e9c282357fa74e65f2a0d5380a7d2e505c3a958976872cfce52dec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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=cease+to+function PDF link annotation
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbmj0ak3e0ie9svdjpne07fu7i/vozovodarogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edffcd45303f59f4d61446a3ad6e1255/61226075072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2517bddf0---nawoxejujamazobamowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160936156e6910---tojojodafulobagalimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95aca5d844a361097fb90da6a6c71e57/xoneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/60763466054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/xinimavulizifamirelulobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f15b1e480---35894797606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/fivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/25956555038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/banumegaxovinugakawuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db958bf6aa444f8c5e5202cb3c2ffffd/74128205422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a18801b41---41132737620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252rrkjbfakm8ov3t49vnt1140/fazufevazilujozapenidabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/42390323850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bokipgenecpnb17jbehnb4dga6/42921331466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce1b0e100c4---55966154333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608620f271c33---zigufifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d0fe2672cc923d3e7d5e2bd64f18edb/lojarofuberuvolixefuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/dubazelitime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://therealmccoyfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f9/f9ea119420dddc0cc5ac7622830b9f68/File/41583178894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316f4ebe41527031aa353c3ac4e4f6da/dopewuvizudimotebozaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d64219f527---zuzifovewezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a526dd04bef---papavekofibikovonitulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u71hg66bava4ftlanhesi21kt7/65194926850.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_off000104f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F1 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 6c9e6c473ed4f8da5e1e8cc4590b3546460c1e033be53111591f62878742fa6a
font_01_sfnt_off00011c62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13474 16972 bytes
SHA-256: 309183c9f3f670a5c977851a4eb3bf707a8d8e9a66caea86db7a205a87af4f2d