Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11fbe81298866dd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:29:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac0c4b80c82dfb2346efbe1c91668dec SHA-1: 7a20bba3d092e1cb1697c078d3ea7bada752d619 SHA-256: 11fbe81298866dd544c0979601238a22c4ed4d2f85d1216fed845edb4e428102
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 heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using spearphishing as an initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ice+climber+android
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613026b7225f8---ganeturaloxonimafotug.pdf
    • https://dukra.sk/editor_uploads/files/pusiforejepiramit.pdf
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/60600893326.pdf
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/buwofaselatovozejibu.pdf
    • http://aliguoriarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/xofososarasajavetufer.pdf
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/81004022889.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ce903188e6d60a5467ebeb864e8ba7/78157146625.pdf
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/nabazexuvodiduvew.pdf
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/duvirifopanefilida.pdf
    • http://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/78582746046.pdf
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/josiwuvasogazuwanuzup.pdf
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/tebivirelawowita.pdf
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210916013250.pdf
    • https://siliconautomation.com/userfiles/file/fasirimaterusilajojosi.pdf
    • http://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/butujilenuzemibukimaduv.pdf
    • https://rtquery.reitoken.org/Coaching123/images/files/rasomumemubu.pdf
    • https://www.wappa.com.au/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35143508570.pdf
    • http://freewest.at/zelomozovejit.pdf
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613906dea72fe---xukevofak.pdf
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/99153970280.pdf
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/pexijanimizofujofu.pdf
    • http://zjleiou.com/images/upload/File/fuzobi.pdf
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/24741149505.pdf
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135eefb2da91---31539922394.pdf
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1631430994.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_off0000d64b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD64B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee62.bin
f5593d9bcefc782c09724a26bc467bfafb0288b1ece6a46a1571a3d37c9198ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE62 10356 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000105a2.bin
6f598ddb9a52faa5146b3a3f2eaff36e531111fe633684854123e68467e96ab0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A2 18836 bytes