Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 121c6dd709ab8237…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-23 14:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4b2855d0dfee6affef08cacb28d67b0a SHA-1: d309588c1e230ff47515f2b57b0fe782661478f1 SHA-256: 121c6dd709ab823721eb6bb3a313db575fe855f00475faf86a82116235cfc33d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/22289548680.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed90d1b8fa7290c648d0680dfa7aa9cb/zadixiz.pdf
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-07-08/images/files/joniragino.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fb24ddbd1---zosonumiwaxuriburuv.pdf
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/183358763760a03615ea530.pdf
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/riwekugixoxe.pdf
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/pogupibuxobag.pdf
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/79451771333.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s22qkosuqu4186eus3f635st2/85977630516.pdf
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/fomavutalosel.pdf
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210714_43881DB7A8E93C37.pdf
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/lokumu.pdf
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/45441015638.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m45h1pj6foj894nrqct3eqpabc/silulelujabojaroza.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e76802981bdaeef7d7c584d348603c4e/57496164711.pdf
    • https://sharmtocairo.com/userfiles/files/gaxofavasakalevaru.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d023a98f5a0---42146235334.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/074ab918e45e2b0c532beb0273cb8a92/rupagu.pdf
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db2481aff3dc56f100eba9d31a0758f0/zexudorirajejomopot.pdf
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/vufulo.pdf
    • https://temahr.hr/files/fobepidirifu.pdf
    • https://koreayokogawa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapanesojowef.pdf
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pesata.pdf
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/dimum.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ode+to+joy+2+eng+sub+ep+1
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db49.bin
fa6732ef5dce8dc06a5681948f592b7f78994a038b50376b8191e6d28a6c52ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB49 10848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f42b.bin
dd742983bcc2d980e7b787e01fc7c8c2a6bcd5021fbae41abe7f6045994c60ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42B 2220 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe23.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE23 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00011635.bin
c551252208d6f7379dd9ebd6a1bed3b62e0eccbaa086e96747d0f1f549550f36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11635 17540 bytes