Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12b2361356f86446…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:02:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f3e687e567561896824f9a4aef009461 SHA-1: 72f5268daf381d3c02a83b8e2c7ef07b2bdd0e45 SHA-256: 12b2361356f8644613b4625f29ea9ec3fff1486103203fd9f85a0fe22dc024cf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://seritour.com/rsm/files/71483863047.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/xuxokadepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b669121a825895f003ae33df3713f9c4/66229474544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/3834509498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/bobitegomubetobobolugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69703436444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa6776f04a---vekexumozudetolupivamala.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/96867160902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fond.ru/userfiles/file/fovafabovatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91261987842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fdcfb11685---34431762584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inannamsao.com/uploads/files/bazavofowojevipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.com/images/ckeditor/files/rewokogujidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmrj64gm2lnl90o6p98kcikulr/66598052839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hansungid.com/userfiles/file/2094928369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enfersalus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10638029398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xofoporuzatutopexoluvako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubella2.integra-sh.com/userfiles/file/nazefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krajinar.cz/soubory/files/xafoxejudazewuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/32382721728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fcd32c0723---nenifexovatufoxepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bbb74d153e21ddc1282437da0ab97ed/fapapukiwajubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/63115045314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/99091469481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hide-bo.com/img/tmp/file/83674405722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/jeselugipurixufuxogujamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=shadow+fight+2+mod+apk+all+weapons+unlockedPDF 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_off0000eed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED9 11440 bytes
SHA-256: 39a3741f4cd567dcbd8869b6809ea48e5ac448841eb117e2ca97f22a3a50a4c6
font_01_sfnt_off0001099a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1099A 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 6ebb2c6fa0ad501fedd978edbbba3eefb790a4232ea89fa6f90b12ccaafc6796
font_02_sfnt_off00013855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13855 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1