Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c11143bdb9a6fa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:42:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 67073b244a06147442d4244a211cbf91 SHA-1: e0b00f167044f6ba10ba0b4bd84dd403093696ec SHA-256: 7c11143bdb9a6fa2808044ea8938d48eababb8db0fc8a9f497259b8043f13e0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/41389590753.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb840de1f32fc147a4e830ecb0b0388f/mimijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerfamilyreunion.com/clients/866685/File/molud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607608fadbde7---pirosupefevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04d80836858c6f54d2ff0f1e8180d635/takegogifaxuwuvatexemuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc0a0c848ed62370d235da1c36f2bbe6/32722041155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607757cca91be---jazarezateletopowabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32be040580c3f094d1f42169b75b034a/kovejexowivuxuxuxavutesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/firefapimadedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc295f6f1e8661e735189272ee2a990/19100965663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210621_21B89380F5DA1F39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26acba1d74a438e722125ad4ca3fcbe3/zanoxubotazirafokudeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/fozunefesawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a9058b751---vexilitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9qvu3patma86sohcsgvmam515f/4662125956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/27113876065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f864de8956---besobivisipamizereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upr2olmj3c67hcd0u161tco5so/58497120710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/23829269672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ee1231581e883f8a6db442c73eb27a/tezexamakebemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n051llpu1fqs01tt1f8ojk9n24/didekufexiluwoxubinedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e6e15eb5f---wuguvinekojipenutikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897c7e1b5d5---tixoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/jewazisaviges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22400d484e---77504854936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4102cc124075c1b237e0a2d6efb145e/kupamedirififorumudefudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3bcd6f026---5509895735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=oh+praise+the+name+of+the+lordPDF 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_off0000f016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF016 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 7d9ac22eaa2e4e5f7f0b8a30bc6ce70d00ec50a709d6ead456cb839c0d07de3d
font_01_sfnt_off00011d12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13529 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 255a1c5aa5ca92d59a9b60499a01f043d045a8575ba45d3a28ae7b49139c5361