Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 012659e6e2b6a281…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 16:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 36e3c0a92f63faba909b2d2609ef9c88 SHA-1: 1fb82d82b0456853f6a580b3e3fcf5b1f0d6619b SHA-256: 012659e6e2b6a281889a808c96d43def0a830340f5fabb92ae6ca07b1e970f25
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, further indicates potential malicious activity. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58998089b0bc39cbe44ca37e9b6d036b/girino.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/2068448301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daisin1977.com/js/upload/files/ripepusagexunoxusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myafmc.com/clients/a/a5/a51d49d85de18111a3d718c63a5e5081/File/51461414577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd95602d27---kirudotosexebuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/jilonidoboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6j9tgp5i9dsks0i21n4jqb3ci5/17749478993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9b2c92022---15079859505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/16316180387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/86348040815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9ba7defe2---47203382420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/61635590836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cfnkjptleuvpoqdnpir08vd51/subamine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lolanegedixuvosagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o3j4enp6h2aeqpc1p6bem7pc6/26415950880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/033034257479d66f9fe0b188a5d95dfb/vukijadibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/2665595815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dukivowerusedugizosubiraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5563c8aaa6092810bf97e00b19672b0e/68623651089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/dakamasirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflacops.com/clients/83266/File/10703070158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9916727fb---7208204921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6de820e930e3587cc4ac9f08ab34ec67/28879059480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=project+on+aids+for+class+12+pdfPDF 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_off0000fa47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11259 16636 bytes
SHA-256: a608cc1e51c3121e347518ab47c2a3648c55f1f25602c7f46de61f3e66670830
font_02_sfnt_off00013da7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DA7 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 3e1b355c3ef5dbebc69e0dd977637fd735971544c922b4c68fa60dc09ba3d877