Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11d34df0356e4d76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 09:02:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 37156717d36bbb4eb38c874418fb02b8 SHA-1: 0f111c12ac08837ad65dd7c6aad264a88c29f2a3 SHA-256: 11d34df0356e4d768379d13db585367f26a898014e68ced053ddda4ef594797c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, including those hosted on disposable domains and WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URI links and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apa+format+made+easy PDF link annotation
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/musujaraxilonuzafifoman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91bcf16db0---76874830469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210518021809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb777e82ac---raluzitakopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/33335227916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b9c262d1d03ae566d51a254223f5cd2/227197125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/xulobolakeriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advertisementnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabuxakususisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806b0b37f58---literorefitobogabutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bogu1oogjs0hgm7dhk974ph593/zitubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d96fa7627---buxegixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/218722d6b00ce309fb2ba1d6e8d998be/45881821940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a86581bc4---redabukubimifodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/656c00de7e10ff1bc7941815e562ae3a/wirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b53f2fd61---kevoratebamijofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/wevinepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8396324ec---15252200548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/fotikepenejipomabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/porabakurinetadenawokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712e205e66d---51724749628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1493feac6689ad7b2ec4339859562ea8/37292809948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c3c5c5996a3d158dd3a43b0c21a0227/85688042172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5d1723a0d6cb2f05d59315b67bdd0b/derodejumopaw.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_off0000ec3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10456 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 2d6a4fbc7b1a899faa11ae712894697ff2f11939343f1d4dc67793c8d12ee9aa
font_02_sfnt_off00011c5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C5C 16748 bytes
SHA-256: bd738671ecae10f6b87a91c520966c461510be8cbf9c1e6b1ecc6a5f245a5f86