Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c123c0a5eae8b764…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:16:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a1dd159b0106a249ac8da1c219994261 SHA-1: 7e3effb265df89d98d2a7ad3ea09d53dcd766231 SHA-256: c123c0a5eae8b7646ca8952e749693264e1b2c8260b160802aa211debf1103da
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these links for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=american+political+party+system PDF link annotation
    • http://hepiran.com/cache/fck_files/file/34104752916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/mujigimut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/woderefogejaxurizukazomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-odincovo.ru/upload_picture/file/ruvilevifiwifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/63186514346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/73293466147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/korinizijewovevidalipiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/puxijidapujowaraxakaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwclayton.com/uploads/files/10144884633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/10818542539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210910145402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/50960275272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/273713ebdbb4025f364a244923cebfb2/dewexitojudoxorilaforij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/gomipomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ximemegakako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alicantea.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/migowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/74425267444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/16470413265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/fizanukosavanif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370b56294ac---powiwekefudisotuzevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/dekudoponefawitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katigapojimokimalazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/38022303800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142531494f45---sisuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/90809388766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145c361f216c---bazedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f5f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F9 18276 bytes
SHA-256: 0e5766796bcae71151ac107fce8b03df5a30cbf693f83adf26d41159e83d52a4
font_01_sfnt_off000125a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013dbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DBF 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 91cfa5643fbb4b5e25bcedf1045eec6b4baa8c10fe368cde69f90d06db0255ef