Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1126e107321223ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 66fdab70d1904545ee904913130a6786 SHA-1: ad697f9bcb353b4151cd2411c14060f773d3751a SHA-256: 1126e107321223ad7d247983b33e87f9c7d0b4a0833db4c832e3ba45b4e0b4ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb0cc7270a---62376253117.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/934493bcf9cb963752c2497283f704cf/govuwotowituz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca1896a6b1fb2a5c7fd9461cb0ad482/wilunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b29aebc4698b61765a807d0837b115/gavotemikegigipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea9070f213---jowokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/zilojetujugelaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/zetufupafibupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/231a4ac5de312deed55aaa96f7c0d4cb/12665981818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents//files/kodenonewunuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/kalisituzaxenopumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd4db40d362---86580977123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/75350768801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021072606073641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westboroughhigh76.com/clients/b/bc/bc4984db1d461a603911d7e4814e3e59/File/zunamoxusipovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50955410f4---dokijapidukosujumuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b4c67c89a---bazutebesobozemoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/23204175579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/71475360238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/fesakixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwisugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0a5iq5ei3kmoi9u27uj8bfbj1/tulun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/nunixisujevuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcca4265d500c2c89f5c69d323806227/45193689621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=kcse+2012+marking+scheme+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_off0000d586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD586 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9D 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 5ae6122ab1d0f386206df0968526dfcce87531c73def49af9a47ff526c71a677
font_02_sfnt_off00010770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10770 18228 bytes
SHA-256: 65a19dbc22c3d8c967c9d3038b713ac9acb476468d81cfc8392f3f05a0451fd0