Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1260c29c353078d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:38:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5e6ded910d706fd3c7dc544dd08f6521 SHA-1: 09a97098a9241706ca30edb4db477db957c6691c SHA-256: 1260c29c353078d579e9066fee61dcb49fdad60512f92040aabe385ea5d420bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially malicious PDF files, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics point towards a common technique of hosting malicious content on compromised websites or disposable domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/jasekepaxozu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/42229203896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///36708634773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/lawigimatejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8srk6c298braiqu73ki0dqu6n/84798997098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/18667097401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/gunekukaxesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/pekaroxevojozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/77609586975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f3f15a81a---16727798156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturenhuman.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/47403963294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8113abd1b46504c9f043ba9ff52b6e2/47243903379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/zerexeluxumedizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-26/20210626055642577542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/difelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210527220501_t84lg3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisnoblelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vujubevotubinixelekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q63gt7m5aakef5s8mlhgoevfe5/23737314655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070699a28089---ziwoxuzaxoxirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d162c75b84---89064323042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790b5cbffc7---91153832400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/ladimotidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30124799904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=electrochemistry+practice+test+with+answers+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_off0001101d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101D 20332 bytes
SHA-256: 2f5b06af75fab5752636fc458a2835c4c677cd2df626cc9ed83c908a0df557e6
font_01_sfnt_off000145d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DEB 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 9b84a6a31a3bc930be67661519e16905fc9748e1d4e326767ec107595bd38c08