Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f126eb54f407c407…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:15:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 49b43568d2c89a417311cae1f003d181 SHA-1: fc5a3a40f05ce886de0f7d51b083288b0b0b4afe SHA-256: f126eb54f407c40721d049a143632d8b9f34ce1841e254a5dd15bf28b100660f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for phishing content or further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2db8394ad3c29793188a898b60f479e/mojuvidazawexudukemofap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/zuwitavuwefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4cbe40qr64gouhtoc6d7off2i/nowenexerom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-8-20/20210820212841471031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c176f73f4d94c2dfe22f8cdb5b9f3975/gixuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/55697152232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suaups.net/userfiles/file/mefevivirarisota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/bujuruwefuropot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba1eeea0e8ffea9c9975ef4426c8657d/13068390588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa954f130e2818b3309bcb8965a7875/28957891096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/murifirugodigenefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/73943154189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/sonerujiralalifemavofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1365672405---79735837654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/dapiwotokisilomupenajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sclifeguards.com/clients/16854/File/xujaxazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c83bf7bda6---movilapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d9e6f46d9010af35b5877065801e52c/1496992398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b68f6fc088e---48750073665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/72766896914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98875e8ecb---95617308417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c086aea7482---pesebirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73eb2e14b1a0a9a4249e41536ddd916e/37195680590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=esl+worksheets+family+membersPDF 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_off0000e238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE238 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 872e78e1b22a0cf03fb2e370b3cbc50a64e4cf20a078cb4b21611f00a9b1ada6
font_01_sfnt_off00011062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11062 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12879 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 622ce45548263dda4d37da57110b2a37982ff14e2d22139d9d884d30211e6a9e