Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11c07a43a7092d64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:48:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9bb5738f60e0b3f77c4d60955a1bd5b4 SHA-1: 5497a5e7ebac83a9110546a4ef99263eca95188c SHA-256: 11c07a43a7092d646425d1033ce6314bb69d9a8010aa8e7128a1f2461bf27468
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=canadian+pr+processing+time PDF link annotation
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vt30qgjiblfltua3f9ent7caft/zelupotelibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/34845302470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/vixananakubabodipere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsclassof73.com/clients/9/9a/9a21b0b253f7c4eafe662346d237c286/File/puxadidixubebobazogutaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085eacab1293---59433792679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a085050d3a---25739623475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d210bed58a---kotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/817d654c403b13528f3093be3a112d65/62345025815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/natidujifaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bm10enmvvgo18nhht7tgjuo2iv/84475500358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ko64ct02gcvithnfs4k6se6943/13641229925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cdd4f9019519f912dcb531f84cf9dbb/74463377367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/ladikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/dopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://txextremecarts.com/userfiles/file/53874932287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/8180333097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10617662269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d727f12260a3e576cf46c0f167eee016/vukezotidivapidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1ff16705b---29575872581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f0d2b3912---40049102370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5bf301881---95740882228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879d2e90040---14859492240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf56404a5c9bb3272cd09e8623c7d546/82628872418.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_off0000e3c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD2 16812 bytes
SHA-256: b82c8b557a5b5446f39d8387f9ff4d0b127b8ebda08fce0637d5bc65f9a48320
font_02_sfnt_off00012779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12779 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 2c18df635fc0d1f6d277d1354579d1195a5dc545b4a7f4f95c4dc1be493bea4e