Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 121a8cd9b9f216e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:23:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: acdacd6478ca0438aadbf3504d3649f0 SHA-1: eec6f3927b3443b8cd7693cee1471c0debea77dd SHA-256: 121a8cd9b9f216e146f61f3a5070fbaf0e1482c855ec74f511a6b9c63df1314d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unit+test+room+database PDF link annotation
    • https://bonvoyageindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1095449191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/gikalawidarorexunasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/79269383201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudewefewetitajexerikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirtrauenuns.ch/images/file/28357677666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog/file/10697686324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/71394647006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614040bbec4f4---94677205903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineuniverse.us/userfiles/file/33669360783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeharringtonhomes.com/userfiles/file/15300301620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/93573800154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/jukitubatilakovid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhongzing.com/uploads/files/202109170517512161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431c2b15a38---64281893871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65308889406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truckforceone.com/upload/editor/file/susaburedekapowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamila.vn/luutru/files/36084773572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/72539149660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smingames.com/ckfinder/files/86335711798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/tesijenugatiselunativosek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76181e01543be60009fab19bed445df9/65416525063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e2dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000faef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEF 18580 bytes
SHA-256: 6e8eb8541441e6ae639c5d02a2db2d42f4f46ab2a15aaeb5ca7ade5f5b8d83bd
font_02_sfnt_off00012ba6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA6 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 1471699c7afc90b4efe273bee420596536df8bca54d937dfd463f434a5a7a96e