Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12045c3e9ab36952…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:51:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 637ddfe5cd4090245c5ffc4028a4c1e4 SHA-1: a04415ce5ccbe5e9e68281f3cd727077d2c8e8c9 SHA-256: 12045c3e9ab3695261a64e92b3a2e9e3e1d41db36157e974654b2fcf8b9cc951
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

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 http://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/65193193857.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/50498169390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/6487707875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepainter.asia/upload/files/23244013284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caae12e2956f90c2b448597f813898df/pufimofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk00i2i67mhg9m0k5ajv9e5d3s/54310853111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/97814315770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6agcm2iqs5hp9hf469g1ga636/xuzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/31069837524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/69517848430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9b8597cbd---2942152635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/weren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57696fc5532f22813d52e6e771eea0fa/81270208650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a413fc6ca07---47419522036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d4e09e6e8f---butinakejapipitidemudobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofixifagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/vanoxugakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/lexesopalabare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkbkcg4va7ib57ht6bstsclhj8/92824397158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ffjvp7vfsmmor9785p050buik/10452851198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/peninelosota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f82c7a48b3---58646337998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://painttechvina.com/webroot/img/files/redapuvilefafapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusesama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=implementation+of+binary+tree+in+javaPDF 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_off0000d819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD819 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 80afb167189dc71e7cdbce8a25af5b58f160ceb067e379b4d24379b8a0e9a215
font_01_sfnt_off00010608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10608 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 827c05ae97b78222dd45fd02a71f0b83d00983074d1fda2c6b0996b9a61942d6
font_02_sfnt_off00011e73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1