Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1121c8c44934b339…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:59:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 560141597d99f836fb4f6e9037516f94 SHA-1: 9b4e455b3b1f4e1394611a5ec4851468f4e611b9 SHA-256: 1121c8c44934b3393ad224f75662ff9a0b1889aa09910c3c7783bf6aa2e6b026
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 of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be malformed, preventing analysis of its specific content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 https://jss-moms.si/upload/File/88653075140.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092caf19d4ab---70409751997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aebcs0pm5l4ppr6bljbd7r5rk0/73607758770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f105af5b201---xavowipili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12414616607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/18409875889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f3d66dd4c---wobusepanajopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vilezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fb3150040879eac7605907fc4a42d62/xixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvi3e11thdep74t7u4fl9f1bto/38253796008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/jamafular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46d2af3953---43724508213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkart.it/uploads/file/javorugepifomaxiresedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/14506698813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/75283812045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b9da6ffd5d9cf1577b5e6550c0d5f72/xumadotelirozitinisadol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768c613c545---23348851434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34bddd2c233ea3ac768cf030abf9a411/sonolebabatomivuzavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqoepbv4f8d75o31aph3glusk7/mezofogizupesumixawonipov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologocarmignani.com/userfiles/files/wigezemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3u332i0n9c900n641g1nl5vdkv/dazitefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/karuvugafawipozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arjjd0i6vghuc7p5ir35eav9nh/32930849350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f794d8d477e---bagakaneniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acquadiqualita.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99374565942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161248c1157cb1---foxitigezaroluvanevabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=endomorph+food+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_off0000e02c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE02C 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 84ab93541950b6c190baeec6f24253577610b3ccb7e52eae5a821735954212c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF785 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 84d89cc92f2bbea7c3f86fe19cc06bed3d1b22233343572836b294ad7d4a8fda
font_02_sfnt_off000126a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1