Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1233893706f06097…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:02:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7bc84f4f9bc5aabe138944fd5a702f9c SHA-1: aeb9e28c286e2b30cbf634d5ca16369d4d1754db SHA-256: 1233893706f06097625794c0c870e62950572fc1b502eb43ce6a3530fcfc518c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness, specifically classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29562f24b1a77b96732da1448281704e/laxijalusomofubarer.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0e0h4md6u1k8gio7m0n0sc3nc/jiregekikurosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/fizixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/636b1c9165a74d87e95cc45b6cf7577d/wudezomutodide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b3312450d---35863789939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shs1977reunion.com/clients/41590/File/61150870772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ee65842b0---nigagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/lebubikuxixejebojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/23238933655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c36ec4ed3e---94264041994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5c93f5faa23e6f4113f06e893d46e5a/35976316823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c036d53554c---30979324274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61c23f0921---13316168682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/nufolivajazoluvolobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608408c73edda---gejulunidibuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c79ecbdc8a91e8b233088f3ae8d167/vovonaxodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/70093902591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/zezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/67012166097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/97824267091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/62716441248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210531181047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bels2fbhc159ar7b6qklbd828u/kirabitofozumefebezeropov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+answer+why+do+you+want+to+work+here+questionPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD5 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 0a7901995d3fdbc0fb16813261ab7a9f82ab6c6e422f7952db21ce3074256cd1
font_01_sfnt_off00010694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10694 17668 bytes
SHA-256: eed4553b80d56a4c2b4cfc9383174742e160b6d10b594b82157328e1e6cbb5e3
font_02_sfnt_off000134f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1