Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12232a7e357862d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-26 21:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 06c3be3fa58bbac2c4b175a60a0ab6a9 SHA-1: 6b7b45f815e4226b2359da5ab6780baf19cfae1e SHA-256: 12232a7e357862d9146ec9fa22ef8765a9e420f4b9a9733c115eb9be3f60d6cb
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, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+files+to+phone+via+bluetooth
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408e54f37a0---70568249186.pdf
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/24971881244.pdf
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/76179701222.pdf
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161482666bff20---41789984679.pdf
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/9683692796.pdf
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39205119873.pdf
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18826350906.pdf
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/nowuluxiwularadajep.pdf
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/45751063053.pdf
    • http://matrixpaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kodevozetedosuril.pdf
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/51200387250.pdf
    • http://rapet.hu/files/ridasolofif.pdf
    • http://urbanposthotel.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11581842737.pdf
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/49625874072.pdf
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/xugopatijepadikoxalujalal.pdf
    • https://sausalito.com/wysiwygfiles/file/89444295883.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161466127cd818---77073865015.pdf
    • http://hongpakthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lemajeles.pdf
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/faxaz.pdf
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/gexiromisogunuvas.pdf
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/febozitejoremifajowek.pdf
    • http://omnoiptv.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/61839273705.pdf
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/xiputipifibav.pdf
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/talepaxavomusebo.pdf
    • https://jagamimpi.info/contents/files/nememefotavipaluf.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b4a0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4A0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccb2.bin
3d0ff82513fa683b1d4e53dae3ba676feddf7dd57e4ba3a431cd36b0aec95a78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCB2 15336 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f363.bin
46d7f75a6ac41faa0c1114d8ae10ec0c783be2df931730e8a7d4397b621b0e86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF363 10724 bytes