Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a11ec40b430e2434…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-20 03:03:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: cef58739c049ad821246585fef4d66c5 SHA-1: 7178577041247fa2b7139e5c0e44f5f5accf408f SHA-256: a11ec40b430e2434443900748d017c5213ecb4bc099eab240bba25cc9bd1c02f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious document designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

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://clinic4lab.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210624190215.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///9499060892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/632fe28e18c6ea8d8dbafb8010ac46d2/sepejoxodowiriwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/134f6b1e2cca07dba49bb44853ed722a/neworijimexuseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/ruzemita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210628_100742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b87ad5482---zolunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608549d84f49d---jujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henanshuangxin.com/d/files/74333419392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/12285409921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae7a0f1729a94675268fe5e901700029/1066240190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exporoaster.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/genomekonoragod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609495e638b45---48682264108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/43980192211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8103ddfa041594332160b3eb811faa23/guguzatoxebibuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55812a0553a07eebea159fca97dac40/rigafepevolosisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073adbb59fd8---69896224030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/5728618542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/boxunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gl8v7f1eqpi5nbb935m57gbq6/43059020640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/53477836488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d63fe10158afd1f607469f5e4c7eaafc/vumaxevezuvewowuvapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/12225502182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=normal+hypoglycemia+levelsPDF 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_off0000df3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF3D 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 5e496e49fa171c44beb50e7be3aa9797c139f33b0d3ec4b622cf6c61182c4be3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF813 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 6d5372ae79b6f9820480cdd88224ebacd4154e98b02af9b0b032f40c1ebe23bf
font_02_sfnt_off0001244d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1244D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1