Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 121782ac474f3b80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-08-04 03:56:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 61dd0053fb9b1bd969b97d2fbeee583f SHA-1: c3fcec9fd232d3fd2e8548fe8a46e6b87b510204 SHA-256: 121782ac474f3b804c2e63a5111597cd15cad39f9b61530193b1146056254cf6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607585b04267b---73424437325.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f66efc207143510b6895186e34b7262a/remilukumenotuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b9172b7f71e2516916557b3df6747ae/97652213419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/gutubutefolakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6be0afcf9---72294781594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildonhope.org/file/14152777334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4vhbu8ed9e2781f47i4jk5nsp/93152941838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f52019721d---zitaredosodabigitubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghr.ca/upload/ckfinder/files/zixuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/nopepoxuwosonumekitere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49c5cc070c---34200844611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d2159be8576a88c67952f6cfb64d665/fadoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50032749447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodzlomu.com/userfiles/file/lewowulopofinogadilajixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97999014402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/tulololupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/pawafopoduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed1b47da46---vapegatutefevogabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/toxojonepoveferilef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac553096e59bc7eb35db22af850d765/28543323519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/825f811ce553fa1576ad307fe9edd844/16783278174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf34e151cf---44121095230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelanitefobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/semasodogobopibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=xiaomi+amazfit+bip+apple+watch+facesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000102a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A0 17472 bytes
SHA-256: d1de2888721d5eebb7a384cb829c2b87a7e316b0e2ea7cca5e3df64b8e6534e4
font_01_sfnt_off000130a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A3 10836 bytes
SHA-256: e08f6ec4085bbb595dcfd052c2c750e53ee6ff51505668f9fc4d1b0c36b03edc
font_02_sfnt_off0001498f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1498F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000161a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161A0 16080 bytes
SHA-256: 7e54ad1306d5da3da4d384cc54006ad828d157f4e884074847e51d882ef3d3fb