Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12836dd1627367a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3cfe9e8b7d670915c6f2b5e885dfe037 SHA-1: ad535a2d7e35ae84d9f190a97ac70073ec204de2 SHA-256: 12836dd1627367a0059b58684fe6277d16eaa91ff3493fbac29477137f3c83a3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for initiating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=state+guidelines+for+reopening PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/kapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f863fd709e28d5171bded5b67ba66009/tafilisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62412590519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/biruzajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-4/20210604203206639152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/wemipixobotosegoxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/40786136111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50531541358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netkat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42395698582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804e0c021d0---14857961716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miydz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/zumagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/59838154590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119d91b888ce---33954487324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be0ts8r1hilv1phvjpr53nf0u3/jumiparubinalaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/585ce28c5a3123a5210af969a8407f42/bufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waludatejapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/169626d3f04483f3df7c507a91921633/96003096931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44236801470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerpathrecruitment.com/swapscan/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joribujudenavazasexoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardealer-space.com/js/upload/files/84099853448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angem.fr/userfiles/file/93481157160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607402d594a29---6878161262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/702525329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/vatamimeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/25833491886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000109f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F6 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 983a88753039c504e5f37c215683f684cbfe250ac1735e9cded08e773cc24713
font_01_sfnt_off000122db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122DB 17756 bytes
SHA-256: 1b306e1db83f307768581e541dad3d7ba88bf33c1e73c19ad81ee80ed4b19a47
font_02_sfnt_off00015026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15026 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1