Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12b17ebb804de148…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a32e0b956fda76df10eec5b71bcc5b1f SHA-1: 64bc01b30c7514fdbd7503257c3ebdddcc8de137 SHA-256: 12b17ebb804de148f437f365f09553417751216f6c55bdf07f755db9abce7c22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+open+source+operating+system PDF link annotation
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/23807688853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.eu/slicice/file/54077561163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/47261178772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/67327385056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437ae79c43e---kuvurofobodibonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06b51glquops0sn4pej191p946/bifelosobobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_36A6A5D2A1276852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49e1772492d3171fde71909367e82749/12715342962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vwb.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/nezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/41834144027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/nitiwotula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/93475959353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/nunetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309db7ba645---53275452116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redigonda.it/userfiles/files/3961432568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140dcf6bddea---74888831054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraldocomo.it/userfiles/files/wowobenepanikixevim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efac7cb4ac26afa2102be1a8f4d3c2e1/83978349519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/69796148179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhoasis.org/app/webroot/img/fck/file/14009614638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/sifugovozibeliwibevavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findusafranchise.com/files/files/23141267441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d236ad42a---26496366604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/62218973598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF19 18016 bytes
SHA-256: 4626e4ef0aa1f526a4690ede78a8801cca5227e3d6974c762a9cbbd45548ba17
font_02_sfnt_off00011d76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D76 10936 bytes
SHA-256: fe8f5e54a7ae99a0ce702ee04f85a9089703e16d8191c0485fb41c1d0d0f3df8