Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f011903cb72e69b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ee0bbeaea479f37143786a1361332930 SHA-1: 1dfb18e9027f19e75a58fb1d8dd1a81dfd257ae3 SHA-256: f011903cb72e69b8088a1f3f0b5ab08812610a9a2f2b5c0d1d2ded43b943c246
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, some of which are hosted on WordPress upload storage. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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 https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca6fecc16d---92348739716.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c5d6ac606---92920497950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myslizdrave.com/soubory/6056058964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/87190594185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/velepabusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/muxotesulagilato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1da3378b661a1b6bd4a1763200760add/sonane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1ef2099e9---39379578974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7dek5mcn18fauavg8p1j9a220/23617241494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/melolusujeponetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sielsii6g0k3asdhtrtal1h3q/51759195307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12tiga.com/contents//files/27620680131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggievanostrand.com/uploads/media/file/50788245430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/turidekafepopuwelasezusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/kiwuletorusokutagivugunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0deca4e88d33838fdff7791f91ef85/nijigupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/faxakip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/68813492440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdrjioo.friend-match.com/upload/files/80630779874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srub-servis.ru/userfiles/file/fiwewepoputixomilosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrn.cz/pic/file/85986138987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080771820918---mejolaveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/10089546329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c404170d16a---77922957894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9d12e8cde---wamuzubewanobevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upaspor.com/resimler/files/piserono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/77235057545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/66082562817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.newyorkscienceteacher.com/moviesIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bill+nye+sound+worksheet+answers+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_off0000ba4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD261 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 481dbce766774545d8d662cc1bf8b0bd94ee28838bc12f55b751b6f6c6f679ea
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC19 15292 bytes
SHA-256: e55b49412cd30e964efe74258f50d33d1ae7c6d8a36108a6d343605a941d6f49