Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f111b3ef0d64dcab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 06:48:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9fe5fe6249d7f1071d3a4a8d6f7c830d SHA-1: 1c401821dc7707f5e6c4bbbd6bc41d91b91e2abe SHA-256: f111b3ef0d64dcab54e62c8863f50f260f000d45104f8b3a196215f63b7e9554
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It leverages a link farm hosted on compromised websites, including WordPress installations, to disguise the malicious download. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6165598f9---disenuzepaperaguzuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be42898f19f---17610923040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/tubepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/fudinefujijonoronivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/jemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b971169b520---6161584384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/59593151025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d8c5eaca2153237ae552eddc2a1688/94313506400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bro8utq3luvtc8mik209hd1t9t/dopopobonemaxibodaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgne6j45j4r4cvagdv7f6fft95/nagosupoxomubenuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a4c828961---2991111788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gwynharmon.com/home/gwyn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fosonutelovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/92486309462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/18957773121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/govupokekawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb642143e8---5478792474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqba44n0oeom5r5mvm29pgtp7j/5537134856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvnpa3dp5ul5a5jfp6c3sv5st5/runuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091078744070---24228464654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d91a61dd284c4f553ff6e917bf4af5fb/20104638898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/56408235559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab57b7b6c73---31642856486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=monthly+spreadsheet+templatePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C11 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 51d2b68d47ee897ed40866ddee02c65fb3eb875f09207746a97081ee66e29542
font_02_sfnt_off0001245d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245D 16108 bytes
SHA-256: a31e141fb2917ac6221449cb8c95e700680d048453672ad8ad57cd6853c5c53b
font_03_sfnt_off00013984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13984 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 2b88981f316b9edb35765b3ac788bd47f9937a9cd3a52af0ad307d5d94ca3faa