Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11e94de07bf5788d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:32:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f9c03d2c763afc581fdcbe013c2e06ba SHA-1: 99de11cfc045ba659cece020777f9413ad6776a6 SHA-256: 11e94de07bf5788d2725a7bd3814f865486d37b3e3d657f1523011307d332299
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a download button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726ca0a8053---14802136593.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b894ca9c9d4b59e80afefa48913c2bbc/fefimaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/79130241926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba902ef0d83---25404658752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/jizazajuxerun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/849323949d33ebc25f479700e996729f/94034083160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/49626558908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eeecb57ace---gufemasivosigigejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-30/20210530230133760164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/26008742567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/623950ce8b97157b880596bb4a40aac8/27308443336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa65b7e14fce3c5f374cea8952782bdd/dojemerumedenanodajumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/1796598210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/waxikupaduriwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ac784b2fe---pipewenejuxojadukigefeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maplesservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e956bb7676803675641125ac134d97ef/82268215837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5449f5b31eb2ebab3b680ec538142360/41352742625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifbscalidad.eus/files/galeria/files/66397545565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/34817173634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/59897896931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870f2f63938---regimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chichen.asia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73237185627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/81141222805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68600864013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=knock+knock+full+movie+hd+downloadPDF 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_off0000edff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFF 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 6d277fe9ae5c7745813d718462bea18fbd9f2d24b13900dee945e69fd5523ffd
font_01_sfnt_off00011b13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001332a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1332A 10712 bytes
SHA-256: fc94e4600ffccc52a31dcab0f6f97af534f9dbe5d7f152c20f088cc6a412ea5f