Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b11a5fed8121b250…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:27:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 11e3790397df9947209b3ba1dbcf1e00 SHA-1: 22b592b09c160f1b8d5d4a91b92cb97e32e62b43 SHA-256: b11a5fed8121b250e65436ebf3119f2787103a10ae8e38a2d35b6654bf632717
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This indicates a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06f1f2282f0d29e05d68914b870a8225/49455833622.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://becucci.it/userfiles/files/bafosubanakadufiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/woruzoloremafovabuwutezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/sovugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d7b8719b3---wunalofufiwogaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/57368455534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d760fc2b1f95e7d61f58d8766d9c4351/nejowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thegrcinstitute.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonijanagadasoriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ac400947f41ae576d3cf226ab8193d/mazipunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slmj8.com/data/userfiles/files/lizujelobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/dajududokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9bad9a6932b5488d46b9e5527728f38/babofilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607200c9adec1---58198921196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelniagararimini.eu/userfiles/files/ponik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdf8c5e620---58918498026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/kusazuzekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41ebaea635efef39c17372273a2f45b9/gagexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087826b311e7---7326691872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2477f2affd---96716476690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/83545264961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/71828885251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/12796053160f23a8f963c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210830_11CC104B1E874BCB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/13732282812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988d4fc4338---fadadejetimorokubigopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=termes+juridiques+anglais+francais+pdfPDF 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_off000138bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000150d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150D4 11084 bytes
SHA-256: bc05a42b865a61d9618a4f0cb0b52eefc09934f238d4fa4b7e8289700736c58d
font_02_sfnt_off00016a0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A0B 20176 bytes
SHA-256: 321eb20eebefc4d15b0ff12357a494eb67e609cb1a170180990e35333bf01f08