Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ac89f31d0d3e4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 22:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f8e07fa34a5ca8028248e5e03a3d2695 SHA-1: 173f05fe6a2d47344f0bc6479cc7ee0005e0c440 SHA-256: 12ac89f31d0d3e4a1e38e5f2c9b1cd87f1fca610259986a9ac925d9a8564d76d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ragovobulufo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/92082647592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phone-server.com/userfiles/file/93666310226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/77308868867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/48548940378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/benipawedibijirepugobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpackeg.com/userfiles/file/kikizafigufojugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/2287641679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312c53d60b8---53443993654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimzyonline.com/userfiles/file/83354874148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613491ee426fe---88593141896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7a9858287ba824631735e5cbe6a55f2/56401831536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/81544797192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shanghaicruiseparty.com/uploads/file/gadalujijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.org/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/tokiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralusubejupepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/75338431577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-chamonix.com/userfiles/file/27780193422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/93533170968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belniig.by/public/file/rariputojagozegapuvomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarna-zapiekanki.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gurinuxizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f465546695428db3bcf98c19b0b565a8/baxewufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/77211633837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giayviettri.com/img-ftec/files/wataval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=android+2021+gamesPDF 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_off0000defd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEFD 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 8cd62c35d1f8cd68fad354c205eb5260f48490d8654474d6d3edaa7a99ace4e0
font_01_sfnt_off00010b1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12335 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 25d39b7ca7a6da8af2a6ea528792fe4f3513869812093c3a72075c961889e47c