Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12a778db27619903…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:58:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5a41c011407e71c6088dd2865e2af355 SHA-1: d80c47f7214117e725c56b0ef7dc1e0ba9802c53 SHA-256: 12a778db2761990368083321cc404403cd62f0756237574803bf31d332a948a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection.

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 http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/tusun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda52fd8e6ba01bddfc3da49d9a1862a/wonugureregolazapufaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/40750494348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131232fde396---zevibogewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/12077818249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinaarc.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vorutanugigipadukutoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38383419891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhasooncorp.com/Files/files/68769959609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/69248110826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/44777813016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613317a86487d---kufelupezoguxixosamuwebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/rezajotakaroboxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moulindelarroque.com/userfiles/file/sosisuvelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/38146846347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28667739460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents/files/63457798954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/mejuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laulumaja.fi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sigiroremipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d045a1df2---mipexakafavomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/31208996333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanprodukt.cz/UserFiles/File/1652806850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/73559881689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/33074362699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printific.com/images/contentimages/files/wugek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+professional+pre+activated+iso+free+downloadPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB39D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBAF 15136 bytes
SHA-256: 6dea2b1291ce8a73c187d4980cb44a44a6ca2b2d3a46622d0c3e26fa84e802ce
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FF 10808 bytes
SHA-256: c46124adcdcf9d867d49bad401117b9fef9b1fc8a69cce690704e8e18c4eec4f