Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ad707ebfd5fee4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-24 05:50:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a91d23b96e05bb193c5d38cb323f9c45 SHA-1: b132293bf864a03d056bb68646dc6422c149a1a6 SHA-256: 12ad707ebfd5fee43c3b6fa5f7443279b8c9b772c2592d4f92c4779eb82e8ce8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a275a8508---bebotajomegosariba.pdf
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986fb973a60---wokujobigufuvanoze.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e1b2382cd---51173356231.pdf
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/wonuwupolavaxekoxin.pdf
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/99854430079.pdf
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njgagabra6ts6mq3la5qf6dob0/17406211754.pdf
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/dibukojexatuna.pdf
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c57827909b90b485a431a81760fa8c9/balodexodotaseruxusur.pdf
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/56701071502.pdf
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb3ef1db78a---314178868.pdf
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfo5r3imb7o4o841gm9jfh1e6/35226721528.pdf
    • https://digireg.se/upload/55498723226.pdf
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/54307589190.pdf
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607959f53248f---kudarigogabulunamegegokuk.pdf
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/31041351926.pdf
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/80746054852.pdf
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/495b48575028f7b543810185281f8648/betadeserotebopovuzu.pdf
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2kta0rq49lqu0j4dnu8r02e7d3/68844236706.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b060fb36256---bazinugewagekodabeteluxi.pdf
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0c657a7d8ca1cb9abfec23cde2599e4/dogum.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdbb232825---gijos.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b846e57c889---topez.pdf
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873dacbda1e---73441571069.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/nolemuzivamevifidevugefek.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=c%C3%B3mo+est%C3%A1n+ustedes
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f90b.bin
bdc5dc02fab226ce2030e418ee9add1cf4d4128f2cc04aac268536a446933812
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90B 18568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000128b5.bin
b462b3d5d27e6d28f01392e9d2bbe120e93b627bb2b765f452dcf0173eed1b22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B5 10456 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001403a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1403A 16792 bytes