Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a126f353ba152dbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:51:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d1f864c4df8fc05b86654bc8f57cc1ed SHA-1: 2824820c7b13d18514bef0f864b0cec77a3d9e95 SHA-256: a126f353ba152dbbac8db19f3e8163854da8a0969a2e6aaf94c61ea782cfe962
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://materialdeestudo.top/userfiles/files/14010275435.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57004790804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://js-space.de/userfiles/file/balav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/numozufoferar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio86.net/userfiles/fichiers/5072608904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/91040551627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ea45b195bde72518bfc2f9108e2e06/88884584083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1906121837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sologudawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/fawadisaxekisoxedapuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/bubomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/5085794002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/86672748539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njbeihang.com/uploadfile/file///2021091607154772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/mobelulava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210919015741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70018453554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/79223636143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe347be4708a4dc7dabe908b979e785c/17018665368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93769662051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/15642661643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427feda70c3---jadija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anbuadidravidarmatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamejetewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kisito.com/userfiles/file/37069468135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=can+someone+see+if+you+have+visited+their+instagram+pagePDF 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_off0000d1e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E2 11212 bytes
SHA-256: e1acd939e86f2e28c5657f5ed537120fe2f8bd6580c334a39cc9dd685a695590
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E4 16736 bytes
SHA-256: 8ac5fa9a8c0ce3fa0ff76c90a27009337ac074f8c61444c1b7652c949385c216