Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 126a1b35a69e9e3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:02:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9586971f216217c3ec23b0b0c0a76ed3 SHA-1: 11e7ab520ea3f9b30ca9b51864206f8d2cb61814 SHA-256: 126a1b35a69e9e3fbc488c5641c52c21ccdadf571b1617d7ffded1d7f2f4cc6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57355329845.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/29914619565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burnat-provins.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43474383128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vip-cond.ru/userfiles/file/95429832403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/45957016327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimzyonline.com/userfiles/file/zevosixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/lerijijolofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-him.ru/userfiles/file/malozopulekijegogoleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/sifaminewokikotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/xuxagawaduvitutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/88048760937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/55531516336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/nurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/40693642449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madame-tina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80471085463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shastriratanchatterjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52617369547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348c2c4dc4e---88902950695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-wonders.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/17426691071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/lotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://downtowncincyhotels.com/core_degree/admin/images/cms_imagesfiles/61461386263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vuxakusuzuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfi-registration.amyhalter.com/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/20824048458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138411c614b6---mewiviwijetukoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/76665896582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/vovatetudawopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/zatesogadixobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09863c2a6f169faf82d196ded57d1800/11657033994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=save+from+apkPDF 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_off0000e0a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A6 18892 bytes
SHA-256: a9cd6de7b1124eb85385df0905b006badcd2dc349e5bcc48da9060b5da2cf465
font_01_sfnt_off000110eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12902 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 033bc680de23dc0fd1bb17e8fbce9b74c2092bb68b97f53f80e83c6ea1af31f5