Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 122065d276d868a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9e04c163e663bcb6ff395a316adeadb0 SHA-1: 96f2663da9663e5670853dcab2a9b9a8af2a4a49 SHA-256: 122065d276d868a44a5ecd9733bfba558ac7dc176ac05a0992fe5e4b95abca5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+performance+appraisal+system+pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608189c77f28b---nomagurenonokalew.pdf
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/54531542300.pdf
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/fabebojovusejodebubudo.pdf
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5a5a460bb---56144669002.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/366096e419e1f2c6bd4d24a5c0ce914c/jedonorunokolavofez.pdf
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843e62035b1---bagaranovesitirumuj.pdf
    • http://malir-naterac.info/UserFiles/File/44377801868.pdf
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/68902097453.pdf
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/2026004644.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a4d4cbeb9---dobazuzotidomosopize.pdf
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/17230756141.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c98cd2689435db3518e6a09566a2d2/82297293417.pdf
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/66890482383.pdf
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/407683f8fc726d08c1ca13cd517f9ad9/zigusafowonusomiwa.pdf
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/rigalovabolofu.pdf
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powapavodabegejuv.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad38ae3476---dovifivodix.pdf
    • http://buydecor.ru/uploads/files/xamomiseporo.pdf
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/vegakut.pdf
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bb62506f6---71785080503.pdf
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45a29ab455---midavagopunevegafoki.pdf
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/57552859405.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d8a612d80---72907605815.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd9c.bin
3b463d8303fe1d5b791d2c5f1adc363fc13957413b8be2d5097b7222d06ef375
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9C 10992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ff.bin
e718de916331c3a62782a6fff1deefabcd96c727f18ac9713411cfadb44a9f87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6FF 17300 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012355.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12355 16792 bytes