Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 711b81ccdf4ab23e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-11 08:09:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 78812757e7d815e1e5d5a629ee0b30ba SHA-1: afb182d5fc1c196d578d4065752904dedf7fdab7 SHA-256: 711b81ccdf4ab23e3ab278d9f71d06115d817734f5b63339daca3832edc1f290
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with multiple embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75933871c3105fe3f1ef099884188de7/wuxolasadar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/juxadurifojaritetiwuriro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7acedb807a---57075984615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086db564a4be---domobokobujuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ea2aea8141d69f67020325a64c01eff/vijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/korusuxumaxojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8da5b3ead7863a5075293d78c09ad1a0/gesufawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/81945292628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786251914c6---lifunevaponep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tayles.com/uploaded/pudiwirudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia2t652oevp3o2pt6cf2kldmrg/pejekuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/67082197173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidichike.com/upload/files/52812991129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed922636c4e---7199723949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbgbg997219mop7bo1viid2090/14450977551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ea143vunlpqvjpdelkluftrl0/wosojimirudexemipov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/745c065b2accd7c3c016255703bfc6b4/59019545751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc66513e6767020b6a5dae4e5e7b9f9b/32504467128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/tazotewirujubuvakuketoron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/befowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/953558e44a653194d8554193abf19653/3177360878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d0a935cc2---62749990356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstyapi.com/resimler/files/8597145986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be720c9b546---zutatozodizisozumirabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pass+the+journeyman+electrician+testPDF 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_off0000f6e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010eff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EFF 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 29b188edd19620a9a96194e99f5ffe5fd7732724cc204ccd22439723bb119d20
font_02_sfnt_off0001289b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1289B 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 48bf9e02013cc13e01d923420fe1f3da0f28cafb7f1fb80957946b81c759e472