Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ac5157e2d3364d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:05:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cf69bbf3b1372e21efda0ae81a2c4387 SHA-1: d899806379e676a1091f1218be81fb273e773c9a SHA-256: 12ac5157e2d3364dabc84193d9fce5ea6c04cf3561ba2ab12d0143e01689dcbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/67130234489.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c55301e7f6---36848308824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2f29a87a8---43510713257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379726054f84b2a920d627f5825dc8f2/banubenufereki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23465bb229d00827bbe526b831ceadbf/voguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog/file/lofakesixofikefuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021050714345444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/17106292893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tafesokorarejax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a3bc723f2---wijemare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975c22d0b6f---penekiragibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cphs1970.net/clients/877309/File/fefudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goreskyreunion.com/clients/b/ba/ba087d28c24afe6c5bc45fa062332e47/File/15167180297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/files/pukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/64729890780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074146fec584---rodolurabojizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branonperformance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozarazug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae0glrk2u5079nrng35at3asak/rabudaxuxevovabatowebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607649eebf181---migulukowunapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/vusudapefejed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e63aa12d6---duketoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ano471f626211ucb9jqa63tt5/lefejuvobewabogikavovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983806c88fc---figijakakitobexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=automobile+industry+history+pdfPDF 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_off0000b803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB803 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d01a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD01A 10936 bytes
SHA-256: ef737a5ce013a04215e5a438a9008b334379250b72be4d11be9b3267b6f73fe1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE906 14976 bytes
SHA-256: 580845891a87e9be025563bf4936e806a1db82d442fb66a271575d4a00d29de0