Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a110f11a5d8fe9cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 15:52:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1362ced0b6f0af3b2528a88a834f23d9 SHA-1: aab6dbf27b69cf402dea264d83e283111db6cbe9 SHA-256: a110f11a5d8fe9cf298247c339d00ece16f6c7d507619885ea3e118403d54b30
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to external resources, including one identified as a link farm on disposable hosting and another pointing to a compromised WordPress upload directory. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or scam content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/88209402583.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/292bdebf221d8944916c8fea0eeb1482/57953738418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0410daed8d---mekorodujazivojano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/bugiwapelolisemalot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/lunulonajulupujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/septd4nfbtur8dvice1okftip3/nitanade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/40148005161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/99013374808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/18182401761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1ed6b23b9e58c32d2db460819a8783/13318209246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31836ac1ea---musosalegovaligomalazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lucrhusa6jtbfcf6a60gqgebe7/sopol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xareratusunepugabijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artistalexanderkanevskyroyalshakespeareglobetheatrelondon.com/clientMedia/file/37402433996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b074b41e753---53023795379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/17237436854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/an2d3i00f2bjft0i4hevt2otgg/kesopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48739155769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manisafar.com/basefile/marcosafarir/files/mepevekurajetaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0afb24ca5101c5f14ed0fd606c1e9b/42464671938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a24a6155c---50147575684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1210b9b7e---vujilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamam.by/upload/File/file/29917444897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99bd588255---guzebaboserimisuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/66196669009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanul-muresenilor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fah900acci357p1fbmn4ev2qsv/sikebiguxuniterox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+put+money+on+cash+app+without+a+bank+accountPDF 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_off0000fb8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8E 11016 bytes
SHA-256: ac4eca83619001ddd9a30272734aa03dbfca9b9192d3b0d7ab26e9e3d3ee1d13
font_01_sfnt_off000114d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE4 16244 bytes
SHA-256: 86b8595cbfbfb55c687083b45ec1c56adba98bfe77a9e59253314814ca963f76

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