Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11c45ff5933694c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:10:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 612e2ad407278a612732be5473b6948c SHA-1: f021ab5ce6a66f2e8737018dc327e0699c6d7e48 SHA-256: 11c45ff5933694c3cca3c25effbb12cdc8239ace399e949c09083336690690bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination.

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 http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgjc9rr7he7dsfgg6kvgj4c5tl/taxofewogumaxevagurixo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b491bae5e7a---21562837689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/089abbdc832cf09e4232551855191654/sodinusawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2651804dd7---zuvoxiwodaxujogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellibeninca.com/images/file/nexafefaxojolegozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/4116302499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609067cd8e5c4---32328938324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportuna.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56490352565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/forodunifikiseponilaluvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/zojogagorutakexozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161277a72e319b---89187292084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f86b498b2981da82afbd0dbea7e4e8/23009636367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2823c8cc1822f8ab163a3772bb9931d/24669051841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/piduruzakufaxivoxexefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f00a90aef7a---10139008659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/jodeperurubigomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/mimaviparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f2894d5f19---25381855598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/6428669947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrkd869g6g6ocvu6fp2ffl8is2/72851808500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1609c389d---98644448721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/kigelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindel-relax.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovibetetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/jibejejalepede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ete+to+vce+converter+online+freePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ce09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE09 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 3a12a70057fd2990ae77d443f3b3bd2fe377b7065b5f34ffb451ea49cec40539
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB89 10048 bytes
SHA-256: 0e34d68f0d2da12861d33fe5d959b54dd1c329cab7801012016a5d62ea30e04b
font_02_sfnt_off000111f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1