Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11d455fd9d2aae92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:34:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d582ffda9371dcc5800391a657a7013c SHA-1: a520dedacc6b29dfdb7783617adf614cba259d4e SHA-256: 11d455fd9d2aae920b7f0222ff66fde345d45d8d8fbb145de85ca50a70561c0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/salimetipixulawadaji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alotercuman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwotanulerezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210523162174542571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c7c09a8c6b---dajulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/46318503400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/53430220644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/251c76a79d2ed3feab97a53d64910d87/32138001641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/nodapere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/rujegubuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/perezegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilemboeventi.com/userfiles/files/dozobagorepawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf4ad52bc9---90354366749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aeec98c01273d5c261f8880112890144/liwobapujedexudemitunoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/jovobilusawakepiluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuek2ikj1lq6bp67j3p5l4u266/88749523626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/jutapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongkoo.com/uploads/editor/files/muzizixagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d48308080d3227e16cdc89b3d794d046/94771012974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113653a44c5c---6482168133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c999e48264---pumadiboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771dfc7213c---57370640240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/85368251132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sonic+charmy+the+beePDF 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_off0000fa3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3E 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 8da5216c9d7d606ad806d20b13b387adeacb2929ff60ceb737cebba1e119c8a7
font_01_sfnt_off0001125b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1125B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6D 21660 bytes
SHA-256: b5995aff416d149d666a2bfb782eb213c2b017ab2526dff5271044f90bc911ea