Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 123a01118ec98504…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:19:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a50cd24e8df9a56bbc167c0645f0fb60 SHA-1: fd91e0863f839bdabf2d21585e94f43e2684b507 SHA-256: 123a01118ec98504ae8927e7bb47f1bb60cedefb24bfc30d251783451eb4fa1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other unknown hosts, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d52f09cfd4b2f7c32763491842650ac3/gizubazumapikomixagakuva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cd30b3d5b---72634126174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel.com/contents//files/subokufaluloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/maneziromaravikomugunem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/26075240275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/xesibogumamipudirenuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/91794381947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/70126044098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/roduxutavorefuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e4f68e3fccdd0907553c6487a5da7dc/30528538849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/71661894134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kepusibabodikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac9bfdcc8b---20721729754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/duforevinuzojivenavede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad573a5ba7---80658238304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/nubedejufulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d38e47fe32---madivakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hc6999.com/userfiles/files/33554964619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e6c2595eb---43942827869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/peridawegufoludabimebaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa71b522c0981f63fc97674be1ee7c3/45924412304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/29289332656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20135096355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/goxodaguzisakefuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pci+b+pharmacy+syllabus+2017+pdfPDF 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_off0000bdc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D7 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 84eb8fc8340ea852dc04ae6e7c314bf90b63f1da2077e0db0fa00516580f508f
font_02_sfnt_off0001019a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019A 11128 bytes
SHA-256: cee96c68e3a571417f5f7248f1a7cd67f86e37e3edaf16ee457924226477e034