Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 129cace5a2d40be4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:34:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 760b92a06a5bc67941ca779237cc8ee6 SHA-1: fba69e45f71aa0168e82ba420c2a653d20492a90 SHA-256: 129cace5a2d40be450fd95d5c3c46a4d80e355b9d9b2235147734d0e07a96121
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to external content, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=instrumental+activities+of+daily+living+pdf
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61f509c3e8bcd3413c70b08e426bbfc0/76590080618.pdf
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202109030804427992.pdf
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/60915794210.pdf
    • http://getwealthythisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duposekora.pdf
    • https://szabolcsipeter.com/userfiles/file/17268176450.pdf
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44925820812.pdf
    • http://nollve.com/img/editor/image/file/71785611533.pdf
    • http://dulichgiahy.com/upload/file/lunojumanazekabeno.pdf
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/54027465751.pdf
    • http://hasomedia.com/userfiles/file/36821709250.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6oda3puo3m0obomg0ak4ne1i6/61482842038.pdf
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/pimotuvevijadewidi.pdf
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ea7248074a7932c04ef3331656030f/67138544836.pdf
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site/site/data/files/51165159003.pdf
    • http://bagodilovaspark.hu/userfiles/file/pubebolo.pdf
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/gusulaxa.pdf
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/guvulo.pdf
    • http://www.s-prom.si/fileupload/file/zulekuxelifedaposumugew.pdf
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/zomumapatodokejolola.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm51ogfnh9l00rkdjqmsbcg6pk/19677423627.pdf
    • http://tomasmrazek.cz/userfiles/file/40737702710.pdf
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/vupaxuvexixovuwofivazatoj.pdf
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/kujetaroxibuj.pdf
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/xuwuxafubelutabobufasebi.pdf
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/61632511165.pdf
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/file/48801917646.pdf
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/78564412770.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d255.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD255 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea67.bin
e21719ca928a8b0b949f6bef6163f2ba02df58429a82c8720e3d9c959b47d541
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA67 17720 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011802.bin
6acab72e79d32fa0728ef42fa4217b0fbff9052f1a6415f43b45d9ec51493a48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11802 11192 bytes