Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f11aa815cb6aa6d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-26 14:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f15eb4b34fd529f008a128ef8c452564 SHA-1: f78d762387463a7ec87ea44f9fb95861698e0cdb SHA-256: f11aa815cb6aa6d0beb4982cb0d8f0d92d6b981b2d046c9647cb542b99259867
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or facilitate phishing. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these external URLs, which are themselves hosted on potentially compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0e23f0eb7---wawuzugizigavotitodu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c24cf7e717a---6142592407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hgg3gnif5j7v9ccqolvb8pg8c/tagibadomovazagaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608686e581f51---92650499701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/55531527186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9755f54a94b36f435ace1a63236bb15/tapijewemuxawawuximepugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96f5c4f551d629a8d97f909641c032e5/58907492038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1e673d2c4349d877885b819f435b77b/mugase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39543020354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/31243134322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5c8257d56b30e944f79865ba57b86c/seminol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/rinefisovulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/pedewamugakovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7680f85edf9e5855004db21d8ad8be11/xelalerelurepemivadoxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efeef899d3d---pakenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents//files/sowumepapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e553ab162f---kakomemudexotapuvosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polnische-zaune.de/userfiles/file/napetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iiml-pgpsm.in/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/22872223045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7c2099114---4225314269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghr.ca/upload/ckfinder/files/30983261699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddc00101f0e65b22b215e65963c83547/gokupovamobiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pauseforserenity.com/clients/1/10/1002a5d8b3740fc7390aa1937d1ec3ed/File/bimuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=biblical+hebrew+vocabulary+list+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_off0000f4f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F9 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 34a5c3694c37ddfb59a8d4d02161d9260b4c26e9e31e16aed55a79d3ea854423
font_01_sfnt_off00012362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12362 11172 bytes
SHA-256: f640a90a379c715c8586faf7f5b36d638685556f49f29591bc110340b9896d56
font_02_sfnt_off00013d91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1