Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 129046d0241ef30b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-03 17:30:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 25c9a313be44757304245bd257cd5e66 SHA-1: c674c747d097f8aec476131028b28bef1f186361 SHA-256: 129046d0241ef30bc69f676fb27ff79c63ffef2dac21df29982530573e830285
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1b28f970b2998c713b328de69cfc53c/24852632205.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4733a8b1d04fa20a4db41135fd2a2f1e/67238394255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b6f22a610---48451233012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0gjq19dj56o7vhibe9p8j4oa6/perusukolajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/10536687736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d668c946d2464d1a3bed07781299f30/sagezazujasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/laxeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malayalamfoundation.org/admin/my_files/file/wuwiwamokexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/5145978769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/47119304177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7379c1e283---6472924368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://componentcnc.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83573207568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c261cb060e3---22979012466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08083207928ab584ec042e405e1888a/50433815968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webornate.com/viking1/uploads/files/xusasudomotubazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/92652721421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c0f369d37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcot.by/pics/files/58487951449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed9fa1871fca4655ecb6a33d95b9f6a5/90074731426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d85d696efd---99221235572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/58956893775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/semab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/67476136247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+and+using+english+grammar+fourth+edition+audioPDF 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_off0000f98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98C 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 69ac09f3d32ba33cc8913dce339c1124ffc30b6487ad8d6254969b0a7c0f7ca5
font_01_sfnt_off00012899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12899 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 262cb7993816de7b8c3be6df6096237dcc3aa758cf632bd3329e88372fac4684
font_02_sfnt_off00014169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14169 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1