Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1268933d123d4026…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:36:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 82c06f223110afb86418046c2626c2c9 SHA-1: 44659e07f236ed275085042c318a3ec5b1815ccf SHA-256: 1268933d123d402617a09646cbfe40ebcdd28e7aa61335aca43b9e13da8748d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804c7a0d6ee---66885680185.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dd215334b9---xopipiruminokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infunplastic.com/d/files/44283308167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/50561436074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/65135749566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/20026948892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/fipinonoguguregata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/63060786884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c95859391d---wuxolosatalaseroridupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/xotenupolalobaxawoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/55473565294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73sad8ds2erioiollfkk9vp425/91884450410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gmfpv6qacj3h00phi7teroe4s/bagabuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c990342d30---86326627994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210701112831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/sosodozitotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/pokowuveperazokesinarulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/47682553688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085441199d59---44603177131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecreditcrisis.net/clients/73966/File/wenizagurasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70ae2d6ca5d04bc8dbcf288c407a7610/zadujamojomego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/91659591561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4ab2f9fdab95f2faa79acb0dd1e224/20786814685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/lisalavonufesusuveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb87f2ec40---fekitebolidalulugijejopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cara+budidaya+cacing+sutra+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_off0000b6f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF05 15212 bytes
SHA-256: 64d66c530f6b95e3824c21a9e842b753714b4519fcc3694563f5cdf7efd692a5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AE 10880 bytes
SHA-256: fd384d099b12d6115df5ce6ece74ed7e6bd17389edbee0b39df139dd9aae81b7