Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c11d712a17ab8d12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:49:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d15c048ede9d85c89dbadf4ca8e0413c SHA-1: dc11a0692667867c354f1edb8175c9c4154fe22f SHA-256: c11d712a17ab8d1248c6f4d5104d5a1c68f8fd2c0eb6ff328a6d55b24634f3eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The embedded URLs likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c733d20922b---55853862476.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtilavm74ic94kqkggukcto0f2/38437670534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/53237628416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc6f8de68d6147bec8afe1bc789dcdc9/wumatonodituzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petkasem2hospital.com/images/upload/userfiles/files/18463706350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/61426079518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/likukifavivofedulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/98274979029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608720ac876aa---sebemuferowojuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607435c9615d6---51248594648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/52441214560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/72982886607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/06/16/file/mizofivawugipeparuturam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/65468996776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/denenegobudutedaxofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd85ab4fe9---91569534852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae4ea866d54841e55b8ed38ecf17d347/rigomawizisifafog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846190e7bd8---rezewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c716d5f6fd---17441977202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loxusutijapamipigasiwomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ts4sgs8tb64vbdjuf72url4s7/58696073924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c095db5b8---56399386142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishheritagesociety.net/clients/7/7f/7f3653e4c5d791bf76f28d2bf9929747/File/wivezofogamobetexap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc81e9656d---24726339420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31fd296bf0---50891253414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/fasumokokiwibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pain+in+right+hypogastric+regionPDF 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_off0000c639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC639 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 51235e6735387708d053821681bbe5a19d127ee07031b6e57a4e098308a479fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ded9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EB 15820 bytes
SHA-256: 6c94da37f8efaa6185c3a40ec5b70a129cd216d89261b9ae7b9b43aa70941963