Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e011d557e7980c49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:06:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a2716cbfde2a9e63288c824a6ad6096f SHA-1: 19ad7a2f8b0bf4723cb27f712ceb287158672dcc SHA-256: e011d557e7980c4992d29a08c30834d151a9a7ab1cb44627158526f8b0c1367f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and it contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The PDF structure and embedded links suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging a link farm to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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 http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a258cd7ab0a---87259873683.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grafitym.kz/files/file/vapatirolapikaweveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/doxavekamup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mufomogawisogubogilefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94de6235e7---luzuletakuligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriailgalloelinnamorata.com/userfiles/files/65807378170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8618a218c1ee157916c659687a0fdbe5/35404313879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f00fa387827---9232666087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e2cad369f---katixafexudonijado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/17063458739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/vivime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4103ke7jlho7skst0t4sgaeep2/82045243438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080be0f448b6---tefazixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8782615b76---67429387087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upaf7q1pu8p41dq2dhdcrct6r1/mirigajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/sikofowilubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/64911673765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/xuxaniwugoniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798b5d11570---75782928624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3fc6702740d706eddd0b7c8a20838f7/pavoluxatesunixekejite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/65846572023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/rulokebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8b3cb64baf---bolinavixomiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3452c7989b788974b5ede18264fd007/55157522094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotamsui.com/ck_imgs/files/18791046038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=papagena+papageno+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_off000123a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013bbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BBB 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 484296505c03a829e143f2167c574a1cdcac0d9f92c10972b7ca80070e730f3f
font_02_sfnt_off00015258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15258 20180 bytes
SHA-256: 4e470c87fa010398ea2abc465ddf6f36ec110fab3b49e7353dec69318f0dff49