Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12a00fadcd8fafae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 23:08:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6f393a8008e87e2f6292c0ab6c2b8860 SHA-1: 978b59d33ef17c0c9fed426692b051602248ed76 SHA-256: 12a00fadcd8fafae812ebb08f44d3a5750f24474cb07f2753e9e2e0b39d28823
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tiny+troopers+2+hack PDF link annotation
    • http://webminmax.com/userfiles/file/lebofitanogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ezmoving.com/file/46617392004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/xonixakibameraxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaonhaphatphap.com/images/uploads/files/9832574451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/65246625601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c74f416a86dcb3e070f968f72381c9b1/72929052925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.org/contents/files/68750312332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijk-fix.nl/userfiles/image/file/1570819630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210905202525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614653204b792---18930286704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/xuliwixuzum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/judojujogezewanoledom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents/files/3861800647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/juzifomowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wigs4less.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/ropamevuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femagnet.com/upload/edu/article/file/lezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/80147544145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bklr86tmt1p1gb8mepta0avbck/zolesuwifubixezaninelira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/mozabetubedufuvirukolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxxbs.com/uploadfiles/file/a/wixutonuxidedib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investkwik.com/userfiles/file/gobetefovaxusasatekoril.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_off0000af31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC748 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 9c653ca8d9aea3124425dd003780ddb85c2111cb2a66e76406865d889e70fe92
font_02_sfnt_off0000dffe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFFE 15536 bytes
SHA-256: 8f70a4a2bd63651c58782a95013cca20ac6895dbad108b33219d525e9cd82263