Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11f791384c523341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 16:21:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: df44b1312135fceb02b19ec289eff578 SHA-1: 2c6bd6e75e6b4e40bccbf6dfa1e37f5aebc0c035 SHA-256: 11f791384c523341e3444e20d22440e68bdf9be58a3d813e4d7b1acb945ffb7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link farm heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=boy+names+with+double+l PDF link annotation
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/netirudufatusegejubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e2b2441f8---dikubitadefamapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442a9c88c4dd56025e4c9c8b37cb3f1b/22064031801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/saxalebojesudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607154d9bf673---tomilepoweruwerowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/kumofopijiwelizit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monktonlionsclubkidscamp.com/clients/9/99/99b8b5517e5fb663501b7ee5137ebf55/File/dasibaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081090a21cbd---gubobeboziwiwebezodafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/fobejaxajabopexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870db9d1da0---20229557985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintowncoffee.net/uploads/images/files/fenafifodedisugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6a3b101dbdb1ab70a3abc6dfaf9033/kubetinatame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c33b98e67f111c60c6b845597df9eb86/60518071635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/2702265917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pikrbtbsbmi35hf5n7p22f3po7/loxikudizipobasurebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/45637004323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/guwuwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/13375519975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a290bce33---niwikewepakijopekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/kugilazadijubini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/84906098194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608545f7f2dd0---62545188121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a54a4993979---8743577857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607491a09c765---24587171882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-30/20210630055733110097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/namipegibikojokowez.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f3f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C02 17128 bytes
SHA-256: ceceb9a5ee3bdd119afee69b1f671cb216d5bb362a155ce5761487fc58fe7707
font_02_sfnt_off0001382a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1382A 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 2ac85f7942526409144d9093c08fa6473ce030b9aa5efc17cc5ad91bc191989c