Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12b8fc03dcb9a891…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:51:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7c2f6c753d8d62521dfe1f655087d27a SHA-1: 1aa09b6206264e7fec8ca274aa86fe6982aab5dd SHA-256: 12b8fc03dcb9a891403064d14a3aa5ccbd6e6bd206cc298cc83a561e8360cd34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it's used to redirect users to phishing or malware hosting sites. The PDF structure itself appears to be designed to host these links, rather than containing user-readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guided+reading+and+study+workbook+chapter+16
    • http://thejosephinebryantfamily.com/clients/48776/File/64281207307.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d05efa2abe6---faxudodom.pdf
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086471089fe1---buvomasatubinag.pdf
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0da925582---43603440197.pdf
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/39269307800.pdf
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/28597021441.pdf
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/39815708451.pdf
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomefedagelifomefeporol.pdf
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/xotilokosozanom.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6pa29cr43fh0b4r4lhk6kdp5i/kojawamewiga.pdf
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f4add5a7cd---zupejipigenizul.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b73441a0ac56f24092c624cb643c9f5a/wulowivibegavexologar.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765707162a9---10031868724.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9778376fa---75678856965.pdf
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/nesiketuwufeluzutada.pdf
    • https://hobbyschuurtje-webwinkel.be/images/userfiles/file/bezowozazosu.pdf
    • https://www.nevjegykiraly.hu/userfiles/files/xetopawisekoziki.pdf
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ed2fce80b652a49c32e27fbc5359c6/wogod.pdf
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a7ab370c1f1366c875db2ccf45c0167/zekavanupuv.pdf
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/tirikil.pdf
    • http://euroteam.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bepajusesebixevekanolidi.pdf
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b69855eb3---ramerewufewopasukodunuj.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_off0000dd80.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD80 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f597.bin
fb99200466a920a7e3834eac64af0e77e5fee21702db6908a0fa9e402c2e84e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF597 11536 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011097.bin
f83fe62644ef625299ab55bc89cfd3ae93c770fbe3a80955c7787d408f1f2aab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11097 17540 bytes