Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11e94e5129817c1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-21 07:00:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 259e92adddfd0985750b7abc2c460be1 SHA-1: 5f05ca17bb85107ec807d2ecbd1611060d865aab SHA-256: 11e94e5129817c1d0498753c55ceadf82732965b5191d31cb34be1931b71c53b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, but the presence of external links is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=parallel+circuit+voltage+drop+calculator PDF link annotation
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabbe00665e---97388365083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e8fa5a845---6123690600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kassa.pl/userfiles/file/28871640601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68a32937bc---67869861181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2021.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/76262625358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/xolopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/301d25e462633c820959183b5bfba941/bagavisegolofinujuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/91715375952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d99031bd6f---64908449744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/jibezojojizafexibusizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/20233487072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081098da19d5---83755202988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1979.net/clients/65916/File/95631346342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b9b2aaa77---47738587620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cduf26pk72ecogr0tb21goq14/31984405686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/lufelofulazukatufojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021060219094427169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010e80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E80 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 6f5dd730a465fbd766ba0b3a07835ca1a9f6a7778c2728de3d4219261a5fa8ef
font_01_sfnt_off00012008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12008 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 59517fe1a126ee83d02ded6ccaa319f18366d4ad1113140e5394dde4fabf4c3b