Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ae115629c11751…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:38:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e402ebf7d8018548412b4909f1f3e58f SHA-1: a007de571c4d42500644a4817a9bea0686e29c46 SHA-256: 12ae115629c11751a7102b47534938de7057bc2890af7bc5448930144ad4f89f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is an attempt to manipulate search results or host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/vosanu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yuanda-boiler.com/d/files/77257115998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/34932728215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/20156441752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/65462473862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pgp-puh.hr/fck_media/file/40192108240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a500f4e658f---51905950415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03816b7778416d5c606427210146258a/72858152430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/tokapewafivinobobawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c3e77fd6eda4214e5f2f68f5f43bcfe/48771627044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/29166278895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1672b044c40a15af85952a538bf6b5ac/96496747510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songpinhao.com/userfiles/files/nunipezanifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607390e7b191d---pokatewelidajujifivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actsonics.com/uploads/files/202108211201281334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/99808588643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da054a17696e5602b06b5c4abde0f81/runuwunedubarabimosekufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076125d9b419---divovirobiwoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160939c1765150---zufuxutobopixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d304765c757---sabefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artedeeducar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51459742407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1a6a2f8bd---28957419722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/25679251257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/naramoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=dialysis+adequacy+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_off0000d9cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E6 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 645ac31ec9c64d768e3a1d65d59d5f3a4f14c5fdaabecc8e3c3bc6aac473a9ee
font_02_sfnt_off000109d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D6 17328 bytes
SHA-256: ffb615f7b7c8a9624f510c49ba010ea775e384fc19d7ccd49bf6eb9c6c015f27