Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12113ddf5e605dea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-07-26 14:46:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 80a076b290070e11168e1c46657deceb SHA-1: 80ed1c55593ffe8cc1cc089f606c2fb9641ddf63 SHA-256: 12113ddf5e605dea95277dbd5388ca894364bd5c95c551639a10beaade5779b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely to distribute malware or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3g64jk5svi4j7oh2teerg6vtp6/xezumel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f01b113cc0---dobadasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/21848813966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da321a044ad8c5f159acb0343d54620/xixuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc1c3d0a59---92353416716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/xiforakofepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0378948001625286799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413beb2da867ab3930755036d858ef67/zopuzasonujosexededad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vucert.vn/uploads/files/tosulamenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hansungidschool.com/userfiles/file/dugorodake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/nirexufalazilazalalesikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0228f427837ddbb81e584f4ae241dd66/32992337674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60460995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/filifabedova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720352aceb4---tojeveveketegugiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a04dbdac9---54152322498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/20980989458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc83e81c63---23979723456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beming.com/ressource/site-image/files/56182251537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noblacklist.pro/web/img/podborky/files/31196196462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/33521202107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e537dfb28ea---bajedabotokajiton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd6be73106e---gugobevikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90597a11c9e6cfd71735c30c9c7cd24f/89387384049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+most+popular+chord+progressionsPDF 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_off000114a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A5 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 9426f7aa7860b5f9f7518b37ec411ec50130dfc999bdff99c1879ae70b46faa1
font_01_sfnt_off00012e04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E04 17756 bytes
SHA-256: b71f42859cc943836af4f3d8fedc7c99d5740a84b14f735b3adee922c8286045
font_02_sfnt_off00015be8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1