Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12881fe0e35050fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:06:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 430b7abbd1ea6e98043409ce1984c42e SHA-1: 3e2fa28a2f8f88379a65b9f7e982f8ee31085883 SHA-256: 12881fe0e35050fef911524c7c144a342571428edcc6d50279d6e29bb3ccd261
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to compromised CMS upload storage and link farms on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicate an attempt to direct the user to malicious content or initiate a callback phishing scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 8

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://estudiowebcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojifeni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/wepalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/kipuvedofunusovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrosedale.com/uploads/files/jokamosarajorelijugaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/redusegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibinetweek.ru/userfiles/file/lalatuserufodozuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/zenalekasavabekige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4be435837---tufutimorugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/59152416047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54a0hm7fvk3cfbbm95ebg02m34/36196844305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746751b4246---59606646337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamaro.cz/images/fcke_files/file/luzemujapojajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dd3dfeeb39---99454586070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084495fd7763---lumigitibotexagubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/rafiwomaxewekew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10721556326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db0f728cb6cf354a7b7c57e523ec650a/37065126034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e76b750f8ae6b42caf47d9b89dcd967e/7229524690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608886c8570a7---tilexokuxema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2297e827196c2a964a1cb9ac0ddf146e/3323362059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=shere+hite+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuzumezekib.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_off0000f2a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB9 18456 bytes
SHA-256: 0a22bccdc9c7751ce2f20b619b227c4dd09817f8f44a3f776a9dc7d44a9fd007
font_02_sfnt_off00013afa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AFA 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 10c78fc51984b38439b61ebc4340a6948bbc6d85695f5449cfae5d0b2fa74822