Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 122af1f7d8b7d4d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:19:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5b6f084fadd8a9c229e90d5b6c058927 SHA-1: b0b14434c4b872f07fed89f56a3706e6a2b097d6 SHA-256: 122af1f7d8b7d4d0f53838183ffdaf70187ca31db85dfa7380dcac5ab4e50338
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It contains numerous links, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://pecsimutargygaleria.hu/files/file/22785348087.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://standsimulator.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/lozevotiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allivecoat.com/userData/board/file/detawefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enredmail.com/templates/files/idCliente_/file/ginusodirepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/sapubasogukekodun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtegl.wsystem.sk/userfiles/files/xejutevetalowulofan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsunyapi.com/userfiles/files/pizizudufado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitbrasil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxevozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sophrologue-nimes.fr/upload/news/files/baranokofimulakepalego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380d7d69242---sabofudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/wibinogatumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albriug.com/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/nejawovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377d32e403e---51589251159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiko168.com/UploadFile/file/20210917105806314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dglytbt.com/upfolder/e/files/20210910082127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613402ab4b5d8---17567514968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/wunafetodafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/wejefopofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adetexfoamgroup.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/zujunifilerakare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/10166065871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=boost+app+download+apkPDF link annotation
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83733357697.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_off0000c02c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC02C 10292 bytes
SHA-256: dd9c5916a3a0d7110741eb99d3e2611c8e72b1284a44a55d6ffb6decbd36e68c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000efac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAC 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 7607d7b1719aed842fba5ab444930fc17bb40e4fb9dfdbb0e77de431a87520b7