Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd11ae436e4fb892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-07-10 10:13:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: bfed1e3a53d3f217f541ae74f9019a36 SHA-1: 3bdeec32ce43bde66592bbc29a544352889c6bd4 SHA-256: fd11ae436e4fb892de3d97a57985cb787862afdda6d57eaf4c55bb3bdf47b412
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous suspicious URLs strongly suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/40129938885.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://petukmahaaaraj.com/userfiles/file/53053734219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/zelipudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46b87b988f---46313730082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup4.com/contents//files/kemipikubojabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b10f2276ec---64573447880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5ddc875f1---vijudawidewosedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///56959197566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiancousins.net/clients/5/54/54f3d33123424807706abe9154268524/File/31455831896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f009d2b0dc3e525cced1cf9c2a50907c/14920104347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valifyrepapillon.com/clients/6/68/68e1c6a84db99a04c21676ff826d6e37/File/vivikivezafonegufikixewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokale-uzytkowe.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/webapamunufitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/kuvodagadeduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcd621e993c---vuguzesujipabaxana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d05cdb813a399416a8de3777427f649/xekokutaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqg65tro79tbrrlntluc71nf1t/22030438202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2to6dkjet0k33ptqve6qalum0/26067503397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787a231c741---mafutuxolejomifowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b6a0e5d48---sukubowurile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kb6vnvok8r3pfcs4jnkb5mrlpo/nozebujaginulinijowusawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4d32f2c4f9---26937336462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/kumikogagebudemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a081192a90a---dafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=powerful+1+min+scalping+systemPDF 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_off00012b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14376 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 940907ba3417bc3fbad137ea34fbfb39bd3a371e12c1d7d42911ce2e9fa935c9
font_02_sfnt_off00015dca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DCA 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 6cfc0a1751e0bab7e814c509ff4b1057b01b515c9ea64adee0a49e905a87f4b1