Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11d8f421f966636a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:32:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8c9a5c5569ccf532d239b970042410f0 SHA-1: 0227b5ae6f3c73db0020538110e65c294cebaee1 SHA-256: 11d8f421f966636a1b8fdb2854481c6a0a7c6a4f0721a72844ad673faaef56dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a lure, potentially for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/ragolujibebofosivafi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf1d5cf21319c2415a210ec60edd7524/sesewigalimidunapox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ecd692f56---butudarunabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e708a77b60d---berumixifiwanerenorumarez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34208ac2e393fb6e62df37d998710a02/72751562676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimtronu.org/userfiles/file/mobevajazidadatos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/xujolizerogonofiremige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaidongsaigon.com/uploads/files/mudipowisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/62333337547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/63339936778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/jojanowifikokutuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86111240675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs1962.info/clients/3/33/33dcd814b32da85629335a95ab3d0158/File/padulofabuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/85904740996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/gitetevojelejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogallerani.it/userfiles/files/12256716059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10569254556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0776ec5abc---24215876924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b1b592d741---zafosajoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c14eebc76bab9fdb516ee47472accbf/tufeniluzuzuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4fd2e129d0---figefeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89ea10139e80f8d329cc2641076d7b60/17258455873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5d6dc9f1fa404be43b2889111e3d92e/52999115846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/62862721333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d30c0670c---36278354886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=letter+of+confirmation+of+employment+pdfPDF 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_off0000dbb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB4 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 2fee6ad2e80c33107335581e57c6b4232f83768a5d2085013d8069152d513294
font_01_sfnt_off00010b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B02 10684 bytes
SHA-256: e2f67d08bbb924a909079b63805c569e3146e34739be1112bea6c1dfa1bdf4f8
font_02_sfnt_off0001237a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1