Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 120cbe6183543ca8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-07-26 01:46:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 27f46d4fb13b9ed3705666067fcec95a SHA-1: 053273c5f3345b00923ea433c2f9848e4487768d SHA-256: 120cbe6183543ca81f046a6aebe2ca445822b930b4538643cf3c5109b2d7adc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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 http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vatepukidelofapev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/26109776845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609605cfac9e8---94024883596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qassh1blj2h3vpqdcooje2fpo/80323155912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f037b8cd67---daduzovukofaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d9d4db03d---xawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b50faa61571---wuletimapejojavadubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c548bb611bd001fdf03c0ecebfcef392/5865566414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhphucvietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/puromelupaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f59a5499bc---xojatiwiwapapujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/vekulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/muzekajodizonumiverow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuabaoduongmaynenkhi.com/img_quanganh/files/mofuvebemolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6364d6bbc---65114836023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7537447f0ae690b797b07af4c5117c31/kotuzatexotukedokuzoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/tupani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i657rbch59eob83fo3h3fk346/5104465285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6535854ff---32892413612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1h0408vu2oukg7jc5g7j1m4cd/22384827305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/88038281367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/bifoxusisabupokunofeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca1c3a8696e---lijojubojumajeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/46050189967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e698930ae217b0fa0a186eeea8d23c72/31604983998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edenestates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/tuzubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+general+writing+task+1+topics+with+answers+pdf+2019PDF 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_off00011a06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A06 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 9f8897e7c041327e56218c27d9da5033ffc6c0b4b6a57ffa0ec6e8e31384ecd7
font_01_sfnt_off0001497b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1497B 11492 bytes
SHA-256: 47ca3940a03cadcf387bc4bc50197377d803bd0d2e0ed03d0527800bece480c9
font_02_sfnt_off00016493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16493 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1