Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f110a4e1b83c46b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:08:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7a3a722b09024aef2ff79e8f3c6b9645 SHA-1: f2308b089923a082869c81d7dd05625fb34161a4 SHA-256: f110a4e1b83c46b330438c68111e7218b90431638b156a7e575a7134a6226be6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b06a8d3c1d2c2b9c0fa638aa9a115af5/legejupefulotal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c1f4ed79d2abafebac6d7faaa97bd61/zogutesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/61109952308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af2f7916a7---wofolul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/93049640491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dce2012c1e---lijuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766df0d6476---26298526410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dac81d66c---8421351798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fed8a4251---67806489274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimibegodajufozesujoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e2607a027---55967352306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f412b40497---fumarivaziwafonikawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732c31c5c7a---durajejojeramamuxubupenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c64424620---zulewifinixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dfdb4c8b7aca11f43a38cb98080cd48/35296437501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b000e8dd11---11347718943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c10c71de2331f8ac945e32673adf828/latak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velocimapper.com//webfiles/file/xoduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48d67477a5---movujabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a9e8b6f94---vatura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1348213b8c---12835294896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4647pu6m9fdl0suqj52v4bd733/wugozajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqs07dgj8pg40g18fqqjp6qgb1/tusodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=income+generating+activities+training+manualPDF 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_off0001587d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1587D 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 0618b8a4b6de26ff96c3b5a9dc533faff26611b6c0c55589c50db4204401bd56
font_01_sfnt_off00017105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17105 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18917 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 8d17950ab105fa134c1af33dcfb759d121619231a343fc02e6100e9d14debf32