Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 126b31f4c744ee15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-06-17 20:20:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2d9d7ecf9c60684d18e4964fb0b9d61b SHA-1: 6d2cd30091e2267aa78bafba337451893368577f SHA-256: 126b31f4c744ee154be81ea14c299909299aa4556e0d3289748ed1c61ff6cccd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a trojanized payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Animal farm ebook free'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=animal+farm+ebook+free PDF link annotation
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t84tu3epf7rte1pfv9toj5elo2/xoregivorisokewufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3999af9b8b32a4068aa09daa2a29326c/neripojanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b6200d6db---rimezasanozagibulufagino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a161f4c23708bd11790888e270419874/43259750802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/nuxikesaxopikovanevovika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abdcd22f8c24b04f51ed3b5b999504f6/58976397451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa43e6d9b3e---zizitelitazabudejesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/zujujugenorumezumito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/tonosolafifevokuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79553d74278cbca80388f3dd6cebacfd/jiwikejejuposisifowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/lelujabuxadekevokudubovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892ae90b0dc---mugazuxexopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831d403b737---17245445473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a781f0c17c3---vefobowagebinofunusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902a267ab26---tewekibawejenagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B6 4928 bytes
SHA-256: 343b62b33cfbe1921630d4ec331d177ba77f96c461b4ac62f75004b3e6c01b84
font_01_sfnt_off00011666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11666 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 5c1aa07ce5b3b0d8abcb25577ca4bf4da687210e2b4d95b0ab94529d0b122ce2