Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 126d16f8c0d527e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-24 13:43:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 596dcf52bcfb151834e8245c2b8631ca SHA-1: 9c0be066025c91bdef227fe3ec9f99e5181c9cbc SHA-256: 126d16f8c0d527e3ac34eca711244f7d3012b273d23a5c1677553dfc1c1dc247
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and disposable hosting patterns reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahgksbgaqvaja08ovsatv3r8g0/68782274472.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6d38df17017c08acebb29bd5eefe95/ketapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/kekajugezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varovinojetebetavubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a3472d10fc854256989170aef0632c7/22313341156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607510a7ad8f2---meratudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/251433501290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50cd2ff15344cff63418a0834d8788f2/28627945753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p70qo2moesndvjb0j8u1abktf3/repibafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/22410167589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgroup.at/tmp/besit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/zevokozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc82c2f49fcbeab27f5adaa9341d2a5/badomixalunemig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0c9c597a2---vekopulilonozedepijonatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4ddde6c3d3584c73a06e35610fd3fb3/47192281856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austintownfitch1980.com/clients/879833/File/pibizomakamavato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efkd28359r1hueik37i3i5ump2/12475780010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30678a0d29---zavotovuxika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/javoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/62904414178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7a9173a685d86a0be8dbe881d012585/65897736919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/mimaviparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=does+cheat+engine+requires+rootPDF 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_off0000feba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBA 10712 bytes
SHA-256: c0071787cfb5d4660f08d37e900cb47015e9aa3569d001cb36ce2086d058a809
font_01_sfnt_off000116fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116FB 17380 bytes
SHA-256: a3afd5999f0e8e528fe12b68475bcf048408f621099034602575fdcdd833e79a
font_02_sfnt_off000143e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1