Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 125f8a7a7681adf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-24 05:43:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4f86204eae0275be31fc4d255bbf2caf SHA-1: df0f5274a89dc0f79d286d498e68ba1f4bbbf784 SHA-256: 125f8a7a7681adf68c0498e7ebabe9015464b219d2e04da10fd7fe4f9d07d4ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and a link farm structure strongly supports a phishing or malware delivery attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://ckmandarin.com/uploads/79272522766.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778534069b1---73774996306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08c4ca544aca39c90cab3b8e9d6e3f99/mazosozujamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893ca4bbaf5---kudafomexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/pezalubogikorera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/91385645382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/putuvesanefupilegusoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/25520948474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/533338011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/98051607589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmb4avkmpdqq92dv994beqtjhd/40774178882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/78759308716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86c72e17de---90587707624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607221e9bce48---34374256655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/miteravig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/midofofitulokoromi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/32314902859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/98972993523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f8992d77b---bebigadakuloviviwetisuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/87345357451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/60728051036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/18458357933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c09a42c20---12122561528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080957bd98ad96cfec83971f5c2aacbf/fapewoniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/28894101095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df43f517b8f---nevovomojavexarelina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb4ef422f1---87526643102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=brown+long+haired+chihuahuaPDF 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_off0000f1bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BD 16484 bytes
SHA-256: a6e39eefd53979a11640c7ee36828002c7124678f80c10e274bdd569a6b3eb24
font_01_sfnt_off00011c4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4B 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 11bb91b7665e6ec92a5e6e8b1f7c4fa46a3db27a8995a85ccf1a5058e3a21341
font_02_sfnt_off00013457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13457 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1