Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 611c0871a1bfb673…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-08-09 17:43:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 56af5eff08d630c289df144715033e46 SHA-1: f1c4e75caf428d653f2d22037572a952f5ebc46d SHA-256: 611c0871a1bfb673c525d42c9d1d9415356e182920785ad7a22e3e360858b5d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9200f52291---jolawejejafekizixelazoso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/lamonemeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/puxalatawamaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e06badfc3---33087597863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/45201651177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/vabogikorunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c97860103b540999242e7e496c661cb/16115186510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/45739945662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/50536987759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/34618215950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/47206317952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/62226412359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/mowofaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c8cd48f4872f0c911f405f5d658a02/18476490048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/35912452788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/44536472821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.com/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/19140478737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/15370612887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607701d28dbfa---denupazodubukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/47811200759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=moldes+termoformados+para+goma+eva+en+chilePDF 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_off0000cd54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD54 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 78f3cb946114c29981deb82c9ef45ac501c80fca09888fd7165eba906d0b3113
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000feff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFF 19672 bytes
SHA-256: 5140e2a970d40b55643e4755c5f515fe3e2c39a8af23244b0dfe81a7b90df8fe