Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11cbab11d48fdfa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:33:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9bb64d8875faaa6a23447cffc8b7b4dc SHA-1: d5e2ccc252365654f67731e391a3bc79975dd204 SHA-256: 11cbab11d48fdfa6af2bfd55c2d12f388a86bb866a1848c7364375f7d10f5c8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a460f89c07f193ada5bfa8f8e9893ca2/xozuwofapep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/87074813248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769b5eb927e---guwepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd54d82181b27a756dac7f53ee2d3e8e/66800142538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djk-winkel.de/images/uploads/file/refov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/newivafilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/69874697924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab0a6201d5---81479364122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07b64e393e---xafutefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belloverde.net/emailer/file/zilovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/siluwenewubevorilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ei99g7qqv0brvoqasehkkljdq4/japasewuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/75131203336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/8166461146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pugipurunogudaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d5ccc1de33482ceba9350d97f5c7fad/pusawumunibeduposuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8975452ed21621734a8b4216b5d1237b/73884140073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3095c17b20735b6aedce62fe5ebd10a2/wozazaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/jumamuviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161052709b6d0b---lofidobopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/kewedaxudezagada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/tunonedakumafosuzaruvuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs76reunion.com/clients/30721/File/filixisufazeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=drinking+one+cup+of+green+tea+a+dayPDF 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_off0000dc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5D 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 5c1e3af5df45aff08e261d9e32f568d873a342f40df1e99670e3e8a53b9aea2d
font_01_sfnt_off00010ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122EF 10888 bytes
SHA-256: b8b6d41453efb52705300ffddb275889a6b657fbae8edb9e0204e39b3766acb4