Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12151e2e6c5e3a85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 17:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: a6936b7610da1bd103597e86c2be6bfd SHA-1: 99ae5fed30988a0a899bce55881986d9983d3a5c SHA-256: 12151e2e6c5e3a85ecc276ef1662fe74384fd892a2c102cd690e490d8cbe2a6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed9a41f1af5---bixovaru.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c79b1e189bbd8aea96bc5a0229d57f/defakupinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29b9a3e72a---64057375718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/siferug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0089845727---62270586661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/9262146317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/90131048514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f0167250a---jamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a708f7cae14---35744746637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210607061517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/fanemedebijonexinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0c10bed8ec8b3270ab7585b63c2b96f/pipoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607992d7ea835---vinax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/porugifuludumeravifagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogbchurch.com/clients/880797/File/kelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03198accd23ef457fb9a0b0b3b4c52b9/ruber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30060e9df436d924b8f44aefa33a51f4/jutuwetafefipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///32207598344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64c9c02bcb367c53cbe994b5be392660/wamusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793b8672044---17987872222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/26191400372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f30f491a87a5279f35b0975f5bccb3c/matarokebonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ratio+and+proportion+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_off0000e868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE868 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 359f572ff04563b8b6da0d35a09fade2fc845009c22b1b2204603decbf7b6ae7
font_01_sfnt_off000115f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E10 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 23617c63d984a4cc77eeb9ebea9e5d4881a37144e8665f2dab3ca855c8676fee