Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12b75736a44bfa96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bcc2064bde4bf3cf53208fda436464b8 SHA-1: 9d49f331cf69f7b22744b0235eb98f10fd56760b SHA-256: 12b75736a44bfa96e8506a56151d253070f72673d53684293094448744e6b05f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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=unit+weight+of+construction+materials+pdf
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/vimubiviwun.pdf
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de637096169790f37b8537f1435c1309/94688526784.pdf
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/40168842039.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609060ca0f3dc---94836073027.pdf
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/jetomudapazivosuwelone.pdf
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/22193497128.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5a6866dfc---80448624999.pdf
    • https://smithsgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bojonalovu.pdf
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/nuzazawesapeg.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e59bca9132---46965495005.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hm01ho7384b0jg9vg4bsdk7de2/72776912772.pdf
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cb5b7f2f2---pedunu.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60047a2d02031e4fe4d3ae41fec8fa64/lewodejud.pdf
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cda26b03c9---32781447164.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3d54feb63b2f0896134e0e9efbd42b/mexodi.pdf
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/gagarinowudiduginesopan.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc6bc1a9ed3---gogizerexizeta.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd21e1978d2f5861205573ad2e6db015/82225602003.pdf
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/51740679724.pdf
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/70256989202.pdf
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab3047a7d5f3164cb76611b3b6838a6d/50795233186.pdf
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/nigululadoxer.pdf
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/88736733391.pdf
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/roruj.pdf
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcf95b8eda4ba2a15937f46d313d51ba/35417301295.pdf
    • 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_off0000f309.bin
5637f992fba8eb7d65a7115629ac7e36489a71f0ad40a7bc10417eca06b07603
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF309 18020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001229c.bin
ec5db79f4afe0f26ae1418fbea66126d4107d1f6eb330a4da1dec42ed67e91bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229C 11260 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013caf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAF 16792 bytes