Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 124cd5fba6fcc751…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:44:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: de4e9b01d3d57253bda588b46b5d2be0 SHA-1: 19e02979cc86fa3ee6b42a849468dc7add609621 SHA-256: 124cd5fba6fcc751fcd457e40b0e30280d09b9e43554323fa3524cf2570eaa48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains malicious content or exploits. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. This suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/65105777649.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gs3u4j0dh3ae0cmc949atvn4g7/vilibipatanamiwutewanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highlandernepal.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31512631774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/nudalovadibivivofokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/29634690021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jasvpo7cjaoslrol9flquhceh2/75978976947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/61094210739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/10828798182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamonefakixime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/42172968423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pamebenaseronerisefezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yepuco.com/uploads/files/paloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba5522f070---riloriset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b26042298---40066251699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a9beff5aacbeefc99c82dfe3307cccc/zimikigexasuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodlander.sk/grafika/file/sedosimedixob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardfarm.com/clients/877021/File/44106153219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d318b725ec0---satovegeteregubaduzopazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a7d68de1c55ccf583fd47e3ad8c6a89/zukisibowedanasuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/33218535188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=blast+furnace+slag+cement+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_off0000ce70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE70 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 7b39eacbab22dd70d8050eb707818a3400f73c47c39deac2b8919eb7f06c010c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE787 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF99 19076 bytes
SHA-256: 738e1f0fc7c72e96a391fff3363fcd72d1be7b2b4421c88bfcb4de92a32426d1

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