Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e11f80811acec9f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-25 05:34:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b876f56b91caff5a84007e68f11b5af8 SHA-1: 577c3ed0ce58310e253dd241b251561eee7d79ce SHA-256: e11f80811acec9f692e7ec4525a766b275e98fedccbd8aeaff703c4a549445bb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable actions. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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=how+to+change+messenger+sound+android PDF link annotation
    • http://headlinesdinerla.com/uploads/files/sizifumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/91301935335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36fc90d62333814d2dc9d4df885b4114/vofuzulevukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/zunefosikuserid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/96773181958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/19104490127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/lazojaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/35633644157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardeche.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58764155746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b4bc56735bfdb79842b97138c1b00d3/xuvojokonapareragegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/wuvanevifovujaginatado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/54659266075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30b3a8a0613e953ca3248538f3746afe/15960634770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a339f819a997df2d7073d0e528c270af/walosutugedelenumuziso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/47905401165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ce3965f4b859caf69840990a566313/721921425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614884b89f531---dovewolarova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edmo-cars.nl/images/file/98226996509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/lamavogasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://templeton.sk/userfiles/file/dofozefirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hebrewforreadingcomprehension.com/content/sibetijenodalevuxanor.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_off0000b13e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB13E 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 9e97dd63d644f35a40715e8700eb5ea59bdbbd60b096aeb6c1fd63206a2512d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE258 13996 bytes
SHA-256: 69d216fcdc485d1ee2003b3ebf56ffd127c21f48df0453b2a8ee3819bc47745e