Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11eacfa3a0cf9bc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:50:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: dc15c2bc9f56414d83355372de4369dc SHA-1: 0e525e2528614aab276d3b19ea341adc2962f863 SHA-256: 11eacfa3a0cf9bc5ca5f5eaa5943e00bc37871b980a276283a04c934f9dc2ed4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, a common technique for distributing malicious content or phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing given the nature of the URLs. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a downloader or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090302639f0d---84793024188.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e24cef774c4---texevoxilezagomefanidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e24b4535018ebc7958f7fefd97d65b/bikitebexaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca52kuevrsc79vfi7e2683hv4/zawufefijomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a2595e64018d577d865d1a8a8ea5521/83303066207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/juzilubepaxupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a96bfb9e2d---pizafemowelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/xikijemugetigexaxosidof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb55fe6f2d---lisusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48229603204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d714949021---xitusomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792bf08a9fe---19259012980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/760a4ad942cc810c54ed0a5da969ca28/29323438045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/lelunutakonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16077e9f58adca---rosoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/49361063641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f899e0d376c---2157962901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a84b43ac5c3ab774f7797ece52714834/32636785767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430154630628552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5063188ebf5367814bfe6a8b35b3aee/90564449255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nevjegykiraly.hu/userfiles/files/49147489286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ddcae4b73---peribebufosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=morfologi+rumput+laut+kappaphycus+alvarezii+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_off0000e6f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0A 16736 bytes
SHA-256: 9f97195ec8e4dfdd437a44bcd44259fffcafdc6a8d14e0e4ea5761bae8a748a9
font_02_sfnt_off000129fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129FC 11388 bytes
SHA-256: 877ffd3a8e78ee566e42f22ce967401e38bd0b2d3a07ad7dc7841208186ba110