Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11be099ae956f4a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:16:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e3a08bdc746709af5fe17d21e9f24a56 SHA-1: 3022de8c46b48acef4b3d48da72f5652f8bb7f5c SHA-256: 11be099ae956f4a91bc23d3f7a064d053b44ee31c0c14cabe3dff6851dd664ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=words+beginning+with+ra PDF link annotation
    • http://ajej.pretty-match.com/upload/files/62636112680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonhieutrung.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82505691624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongwave.com/userfiles/file/jodafase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ituor.ir/basefile/chartermeinfo/files/rivixetidipopufinoxixusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109130503361533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatechkj.pl/upload/fck/file/91244443076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69666163502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroykap.com/application/views/stroykap/userfiles/file/56745162668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/38011028525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021091113133179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142427d106fc---82846157963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b33a3231973c5a86a2a0e8f4d84f35/57472785028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9346056218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/jafog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huspanda.com/data/ckfinder/files/75193874215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanabi-la.com/uploads/files/wudilefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614039d044c2b---vevomuzomobojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htchninc.com/d/files/dewedikolopeleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/74557067440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/69845691010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6134DEA20F34D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916123104312419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021090207261786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/11175164121.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_off00010eec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEC 10700 bytes
SHA-256: a908ff969a7bb77cbd67007d9f65f4dbf271edf6b83db66d632f2540c1bf81de
font_01_sfnt_off00012746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12746 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3ecdda1ecc062c314736ce9a3523d2564759ae1e3f31602a751d875462781c
font_02_sfnt_off00015854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15854 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1