Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12057cf99787c14c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 08:36:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: b9b81f7213482930e640eb8016585042 SHA-1: f9c4f83ae2f81a79e25f7b81a3254a2d45d8d150 SHA-256: 12057cf99787c14c5f7aaa2c29e80c0892bd64a85b40a929e33359e41983a65d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the links suggest an attempt to lead users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/18553941361.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833282dc46d---xezawugidisadivawemedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94023899824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/39850058482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/wenabuluwizenavufamegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69441043656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqfrfjq4k5crukd60ea94rndlk/34454227598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u29carhogat16ss2tosgdib3n2/suranorejefamanagubomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/tajaxamubuxewizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d6cd992bd---kubaruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/89485110663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc6755d2835---4535930727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e627fbbea8d5705c599069bc1a259e0/1372850147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084444975e45---belefujitewipiseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/75524160508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/26400604088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/zalusebexodugagalutini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100ca95c687b---sikijomuragan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddc08822f46---besimexesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/83598191094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c373c1d7528---16591725327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41aofngn1t71p2nrmcdj53moi3/29520076973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+plano+cartesiano+para+resolver+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_off0000ede6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE6 10792 bytes
SHA-256: ee7250709234a8788c14cc0a7ecd6ede5b0a8ba09e12e93fd8de369ba742461e
font_01_sfnt_off000106da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011eec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EEC 18980 bytes
SHA-256: 288efc8d66b512faf22e004c5df42772774ad5f77c271c74e7140eb9e8c17e7e