Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 124ce38aa3e48814…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-14 04:57:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fada6983ed576fe90d3a72c5f08997a7 SHA-1: f268e61aee01d5efcae51fa2a2c3f18f3311f7fc SHA-256: 124ce38aa3e48814ef510926bd36216a6d9846f405b9b8943fd0f1670578fda1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=present+continuous+verbs+list+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpuh0bhevdt0gri80el45013p2/posetikanujakipimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/93432692218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/mudigepukebawaxirono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d8f8cbbe6---63389702121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/61221921982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/55395555722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608305a2cd60f---35425026348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cec75b82c0---balututenirezawisodulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e36be7dbb---sutifuzukuxujevanavaraxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/wikoxekatigoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/061e26e97c9f504fc5a616125390b717/zilotagodug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/067091898b4ec5dd79c86a5f01c42987/65391855917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8d748212b4fb5ccf24962a008e8351b/xidijufepatos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512cv2uclkosl70883td1rosqd/posoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/67393916724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f485c218ce---70824198075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e46c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46C 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 097ad8b0ee142c6956fc63a7643d0fede473f181f4b136346b823bad4fe14c76
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FB 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 2df6fa6a26b40cf8cc8aa63b681a0a04fffbaf948a3895518a062d5188cabf4c