Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1281a26e95b8f3c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 22:37:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4ff74b2cb0b853ad5f3738534d0c4999 SHA-1: 2c11e3b0e93abf1abe349606871dbaf127361bfe SHA-256: 1281a26e95b8f3c9b4a6e028c0a892cddc9e9472474305b721e02741835a064d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as redirects to malicious sites, a common tactic for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://nandeestationery.com/userfiles/files/20844134635.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f32a8a768---35779539513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b22ab7d116da66c84eb99487f2827ef4/todolaletedosanozani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/51177813192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdf66603d2---87471985787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/75524160508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad825f8dbac---42788027259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondrejkocar.cz/img/file/40378870490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/loparifajoramugupegikukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11061014315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/viwonidimubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210512154558947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/50072204030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwest1980.com/clients/9/9b/9b13e9c1eb96aaf026ead536bb80a376/File/24869623521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85bcf606a0---53788520417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/34328604718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609255c66a65e---76464636580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fff46c1b5e9dec6757ee735eb810b539/wubumigajusukitizibizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/crom89hmneqvoun4v8v3clmov6/39570843009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0367e94698d82cb49b442c096acd1063/81999888395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742bbb54bbd---rifepubikukumokifutegaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/kipapalujawexobosiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=happy+valentines+day+images+and+quotesPDF 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_off0001131f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012b36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B36 11052 bytes
SHA-256: d541df635f2804234230597444825677c5f93138d6103ac18f84f21af110f828
font_02_sfnt_off00014466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14466 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 9b0c3473defca34ba5c4813f1bbe5fa973d8425211d1a2035c84006f626232a0