Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12100c08c05c26e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:28:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7d5da504b6939c216e70548882a40232 SHA-1: 9ae84e19b677a2f3db5858480f603c7c681c6a59 SHA-256: 12100c08c05c26e7376d07fa3d880b8a40c8f87cc9b9d7082215b68fb79cd8cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://tele-video.ru/upload/files/lanewamurozovisamunupob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/28354024160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/jovodawudadijozuzirodupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa4f7c0109---50333733060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6692a49d95eb940d44af5ae15872f612/gafegexilufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/gakorabomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074356bc4335---zonuvojiruxarudopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d795e4443c---wesulegofitewokokopidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ucltso63fkqq6ghj7mrgg1r8bm/33714579320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c786c31f2b6bf355a830f2954a72dfc7/67381262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21n7s8hluo8bhvf9g6ikfcjhsu/29648056856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608236cdb9323---welakuwirebumudufuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14a8031115---17876064750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/19939568989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5484dd0671c035e3e4f2ccc05faf29c6/meteripubipapifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fb37a8a40---1073377915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb21517ad98d401e6164f5a84fb40477/62092049129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/kakataguwegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///sowulizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51426a5c5b13a6d9005ed41dafd647b0/46912542892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9fb5e83e1---47956424119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=minestrone+with+ground+beefPDF 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_off0000ee83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE83 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 19ea1d9a414fb2d3c962c81096867051ab4050070fab6c5bbd656553bf1403f6
font_01_sfnt_off00010700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10700 18592 bytes
SHA-256: efdc19d93f5be123cd6a7a597fd0b50a58889c5c3e6053685d661c2db69d565f
font_02_sfnt_off000137df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1