Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11f41b2233f35a3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b579df39b660b4307d38338620963779 SHA-1: fe6883bc7b4b12295da0fb24e9bde47399466936 SHA-256: 11f41b2233f35a3ec6837af476e82eea56f89627c955bd61aa119f67bf9c326b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS uploads indicates a likely attempt to lead users to a phishing or malware-hosting page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bankers+book+evidence+act+amendment
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8db2e5a393---zuwaxelulaluxej.pdf
    • http://top1np.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64936539793.pdf
    • http://perfectionistpaintingnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74448667771.pdf
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081aaa3d6e0d---vanotozuzadagosuvimobule.pdf
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/28643698295.pdf
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23cc48e67c903927fb5f1b4bdd96e99e/84638801276.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609143b73eb32---8923893678.pdf
    • http://sequoia60.com/clients/875776/File/sufikemofewofu.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ed3a84d17---4207107535.pdf
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/33976029422.pdf
    • http://yachtandgulet.com/userfiles/file/fesupimiju.pdf
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/61865014232.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93564d5ea921c5c043d6420f2870a527/46010844930.pdf
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhks79ujqvchh4v058ulqvsk4t/zovigabinekunojusota.pdf
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fafb424fb---9590780697.pdf
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e8c13cd12---nexepefaf.pdf
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8e8f606bc---wabijuluwowal.pdf
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0791e166ec2865163234ddc33f0a25bd/bokipawavapiwisaforidabe.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0oha1k9q4bjn6mieu530c5juc0/kobolajepuwikot.pdf
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/pekurofalaxoxed.pdf
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9668efdc4---kexevomawilekilelofagunag.pdf
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9662eecfecedecdf6459ecc039e8c2d1/bokifidofekujivupepubipen.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de05.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE05 10836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f718.bin
83771c72e0e79640d6f8b8d79904927026878d7aabe42e29bea597d5475d7fdc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF718 16668 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012298.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12298 16792 bytes