Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11fce45b1a0e2306…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 22:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b22797b4a1d7f18f4f1642c76ca018b8 SHA-1: 10a6cab43c569df6a2401ade9a07154917900108 SHA-256: 11fce45b1a0e230677050edb8d35404143d4f23184c39878bf84d6b1c6c4a55b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose, but the heuristics and URLs clearly point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqr9dlk3c20f0vosfjd61gotkm/vubizizizesut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fcf899f5d---63099146000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d5280de25---visub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210716055345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/zenatavikalexuwofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronniejoymemorialfund.com/clients/1/1a/1a75100f29d804137a154ca93ef51a80/File/55702301566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b2f87ddc2---61449743905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8feffbf48fd99b5cfe9a4f53f4eb96/viligenowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/53400646788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/dugiwamimawodumavuleroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdr4frq9hp4s3ioje06aiqmib3/88761114052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v17nsbd89nrs026f2lrvguj151/nikujabupelatozipixidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609044cc43dbf---gotisanuwebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070521fbdbcc---77384587917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff68a3136d29a90c3f18f2c09bbeb354/taluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leifs-auto.dk/images/file/76803205329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72103820445f51188eeabe168db0e875/61921108282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/77044680357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rn2pujq609bc1mdvi571j011p4/87898366915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/80546009700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/vuzekimumeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b70e462f02e52c30f03060a0ba8b831/zakadujojawunakizeziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0af51f7be---mitekuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702726dd01e---62468534076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607570d7cbfd1---lagimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tap+and+puttPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD570 17756 bytes
SHA-256: c4befddfae91864e972a3be3b88a5874d82982eeb7bfa72d6eac4c34e1c4e90f
font_01_sfnt_off00010483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10483 9788 bytes
SHA-256: e31cd750f729465230df28822250543dc5fb71b7453196b28529f348515012ee
font_02_sfnt_off00011a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13213 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd