Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12af1923fe046bb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-10-02 23:16:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f78bfe133f376ed83fa6f2d78471582a SHA-1: cffe6fafd69c3e354b6a0dfd4aade8b823ba73b2 SHA-256: 12af1923fe046bb578cb90e0b2ddc36736004dbe7b90dc2471216e609375a406
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but the presence of numerous external links is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/41063184072.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615712f07a936---5023023359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306d95c7d5b---37798298848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55505530320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01ed70e081d9d466fc0edc6db7091bb/bitagirinido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcyy88.com/userfiles/file/2021090222525773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/joxolemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/42065677818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryyw.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109191045454275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145085bd194f---74264735479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/kezajedujepuwubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdannepal.com/userfiles/file/83202012664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ddf0ba45b---10614731960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/wejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labotinnghia.com/img/files/zofake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents/files/41499226440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/95252689377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/2540019152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecontinues.ru/images/files/bapasabexifafozegiragupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/15370008070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabuvofixot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=screw+your+neighbor+rulesPDF 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_off0000ae73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE73 17808 bytes
SHA-256: ba9b06b059763f86d38ca5df3b4d195b7652e019df3b607c6c0e828fce030b13
font_01_sfnt_off0000db7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF392 10764 bytes
SHA-256: b00795a469e7910c0a523eee14fed4111f5e888f785c9d8363882b9b9f8937a9