Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 126042c093ac662b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:16:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a6c32244efe915ef3572cf541c9b8982 SHA-1: 7157e57fad0893720e25cd14252bd7120ca8c944 SHA-256: 126042c093ac662bdc894b6c911f57d5090b9cdfafba0a07c4f8618ae7eb2edb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ho6s1ct0k596gne2af616scj/12492586155.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983354d5e7e---zosozuzuriginaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210610033426_fe70mc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonellascarpittadesigner.it/userfiles/files/48231407821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/gepiseviwusati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acabb173454---xijatodowusukivazulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/2198851883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d40f768a8a---kodorike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelbilet.ru/sites/default/files/file/ronelunakagedora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thb3ijdrfh37n0dug1irc3f5l1/defatixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandprotheses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaripalapifaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/1856124069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161143cf2610d8---tamikazuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b791cd07b2---5809774771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/rikidivujozumexugixawepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608669b36b020---nedukaxoletovoveguxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104a2d75be27---19612611501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec1dee2bd5---zasalajorufukaguliri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49841793995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ccf5eb5a144f6c1866cd8e264264ab7/7737986566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607663811caec---riguzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workontext.ru/media/file/39950186481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/34375802243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/nosalabiwuvasuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maisondequartierdespareuses.com/userfiles/file/nozupabuzufejozumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=english+grammar+test+b1+b2+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_off0001276b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1276B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F82 11120 bytes
SHA-256: e061f3aa3250516e27e741ffb03de2b9fa5d574dd86f9ccd6e39ceb1c2a62ea5
font_02_sfnt_off000158db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158DB 20248 bytes
SHA-256: eada61b96a536ea1ff71db7a07adbb71f928578c26b149a2488024d6fc524bd2