Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 120ab9a56cf48a56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-25 06:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7ec11b523f16c6a947be3c6a20795abf SHA-1: a256dc06740b25b723391f065396f19f24d130e3 SHA-256: 120ab9a56cf48a56872d330d2d6b6b1520b2fb0cf715313e4a29f288bb910f2c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating it's likely a malicious document designed to host or redirect to further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/telajewitototoludosene.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e9c00417386748ecf5e6191a1c87fea/71828965592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otigetv8c6jv7q9vsbngpk6cme/putexawatorelunifox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ac8cab3d3d5509cdfe62f44b36e4aeb/vafudijenupeboxoxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608265065cfd9---54755219304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17976147361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/50234588286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/12880132313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31d0e6ab0b99857a93f1b3e3de8f82fe/92288777710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinetreerealty.ca/clients/55933/File/zidaxewutujome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935762vh6r76fs3r500cvmj6h0/fibovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitin-akutsu.com/js/upload/files/81942215821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/xajapamatoliguzaxegezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/kijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/17487948747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/bovufowatopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8314c49ddf---vunaxozejofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609463819f6ca---wadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700d53cf5b8---25703078224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6be9d7f744---sutematimewizunimesixato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6a2fc6dda---donizijamulutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundaia.ru/userfiles/file/80339190636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e2b6719af---bimuwufata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonhieutrung.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33720333487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/6313671486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7742570a284f3988fc936db7243c9b95/talomudefezanoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=big+five+personality+traits+questionnaire+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_off0000f40c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C1E 17332 bytes
SHA-256: a088de0c6652eb02b1e3db23af4d41e868cb72703b06a216a2dd24e1762f1016
font_02_sfnt_off0001397f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1397F 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 5c1adab834b8f0c5a979b8c7b4309c5315cb3b6dce2b816f12ed30a3ba641137