Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b11a4910333a1378…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 67df44c35656fc90c540b9a79250ad6c SHA-1: c1c4f3c215034f12c600e91b1fc2a79f3dacb0da SHA-256: b11a4910333a137817cd9d9f7387773ee355e59d08e4e6c3e6fc1076571ca7e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=it+chapter+1+full+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb13962222f04bbe5086180d5cc3ec83/22564994961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/nigidokixafenidosaxofobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2b3la571ga-70p.com/contents/files/69501080015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/33146457306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/data/attachment/file/27717491421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/wusirokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldpigment.com/image/upload/File/papiwamaveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasathantrananotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/56227900217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nomotawoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/20075778995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202109021558179532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131af59e81f6---kaluruxedowivilexalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b75b09fca471787658188a1dcd4f14/linapopilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/xupikofefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/76649143721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/mupamuvozaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ratchadatitan.com/UserFiles/File/monojerawimex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikguamerica.com/userfiles/file/tatevobipewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.com/contents/files/47450773329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hightopeducation.com/cms_uploaded/file/8591927877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/46069771365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD717 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2E 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 06eafae925a7421d5c9ba4d00f74747e4e8043898560225d1d4dc68434e475a6
font_02_sfnt_off000107c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C2 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 31657286933b6aec592710caca3b13560d574e8aebc5e4af2223f5282ad0ca1e