Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11cc31ef19637944…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:54:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 38a26bcfe56724562155d793947879b7 SHA-1: f31142982f8ea131fa51fc2782c0c9b27eab57a9 SHA-256: 11cc31ef1963794426376efce7537f4f3e36e4479e92f0989fe032302376bbe7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=first+second+and+third+order+reactions PDF link annotation
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/zewanarunilomomokejige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a056dba12139e87b086bbff38f8a568f/bezirejuzotonekunedagodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abced4d41eec39f5f6010ee6795975ab/16869775901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49486cb11d---favosimokajomegawexu.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/pusipodaweguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3pmeal6p75iiiu8r783c40ers/vizasusedofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e060af1419938bba882aeccf7ab780fd/rawazurexoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832afb212f1---13202871950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53920ec1b9---38312906719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/zavupuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/47897165575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fv83tn3jjn4ec2i3ninlo1tqod/85076881310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609237c2b1648---budutobonerifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075690ee73c2---toxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ed4edeb74---72513556924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/talepinumazirutaxopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/50523112749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/44640498079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/banesogipujavedalipata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunjewelsonline.com/userfiles/file/novujapujariromimemaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/48880438639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///luxezuwofafenezujatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1d074357f---zegagepewuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/41797775795.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_off000140b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000158ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158CA 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 50caee7eb8132ac3d4d7e2a787925c335f752c8c07ab63f7ecadec0dc90edfd6
font_02_sfnt_off0001703c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1703C 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 4e478e57ef6a690b110ff12c71064077de0a5cff584d8409772dde71fad1312d

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