Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12911a7e9304cd5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1c1dd9fb0cbed411a1b4f68e560cfdb6 SHA-1: 9094906d59f1275e6a4ea74007520161d7d7bd9b SHA-256: 12911a7e9304cd5d36ef01b4c7a2246ba4e7064845442b2f651836c225afef19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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 http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/79026354975.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b70796f5fb13fbb8c0fac1b5aa56cbc5/83142449471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ef49265d252d6703e9ea80d60d3a23/muzajibisajotujanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsp.by/userfiles/files/12456098446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/94236968857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/41378301092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/76730930450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccdf77344fff98d4cec74d6d9c56b491/bejosiweluxafiguravejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c68817f7d8---finumokafupalalema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caf-ljubljana.si/docs/zetune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2747dfb53f5cf1003ddd398fc34181a1/52361981229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/70169437570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b07ee1fcd94142408fcb19a48ab3d2dd/65110123561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/puluvapimomijagitozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2596d2a09a2c38b2c0d1d6345afd3334/daxonokuwixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4bead1f7f3---20419106662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/718jk4v94io8om172d5qekc9s0/33350848791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/kogetunami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092877c04e29---73597842455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ebi7bja4dg01u0s80e4qdh0e4/86831919061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/508486476064328db9ded847646bda82/33529349926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lafuzasimesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/64952743371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/85086824490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=jfk+to+guayaquilPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d310.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD310 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB21 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 0491ab1f9781984131449868ed95f15036bddabad70a51597ae233fa8bdf08d0
font_02_sfnt_off00010044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10044 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 7e916e340a871d0f12eb5496a6e3decdf16a1feb600a081a35b857c479001a01
font_03_sfnt_off00012dba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DBA 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 4aa4b8307cef04f1bd7b8722d008c3e6ceed164cf848e246f937fb755a8f6fd9