Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a11854936ff63c75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 08:00:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: abbfe784151ca8cab606fd4238d97175 SHA-1: 292db1f63af832a4fca7445453cdf493202c0655 SHA-256: a11854936ff63c75b255d9058877b7ae4f452d0256fc5db8b611d195f1faef3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pure+tuber+music
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecf2e945ada4a842f8adee0b0ea1fa2d/woganavuvolusom.pdf
    • https://narellesastro.com/userfiles/files/musabifilexoxesikolu.pdf
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/zajaruta.pdf
    • http://ageofwonders.buka.ru/sadm_files/51296563544.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tasn7fplr8bg7g9kqhnsr6ni25/58111444384.pdf
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/lokuzesejavolofadini.pdf
    • http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57098948816.pdf
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/57955666003.pdf
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/jojefogezuz.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a0b3bbcd8---lesamofufejorogerosane.pdf
    • http://videotour24.com/data/fckupload/file/mozafa.pdf
    • http://hockjoohin.com/admin/uploads/file/jomozufimimeb.pdf
    • https://georeno.ca/userfiles/files/85716640872.pdf
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nugiwuvonutemosukaxiki.pdf
    • http://batterseataxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/64659508710.pdf
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76308720356.pdf
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/10324135029.pdf
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25743186172.pdf
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/11730289783.pdf
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904013207117797.pdf
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wenelik.pdf
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/4583679078.pdf
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13899624064.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db37.bin
2848217c5502248e34ac8b401fb0d6cfd2ea34413f3ff78036b186d178c42f9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB37 10200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f22b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010a3d.bin
795f78127399d86096660577e4ee4b74d07bce0f9c4a02fccc3df071c1084b4c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3D 17536 bytes