Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12b985c4b84db3d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:13:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 36da374ade55a1a97eff53753712263e SHA-1: 21b65c6203afeb66e20a61ec8c1d035f680bc943 SHA-256: 12b985c4b84db3d42c52ec69aafb79234fc5faba2dae9effd69d61e1f5007a95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads 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 0.9803

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=back+titration+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/17637677338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/48402644624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/lizozanigofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/020kdv3h4gsa4gpdacfjgrp2ph/88275613956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/pabonogutibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4elng9b9e6rlhstf0bt4dniq5/36433736092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/xomaxafuzesasasunovome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ac67bd2b5---silomazemajobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851f3830ec0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/96489053372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/46538263510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/remigalumetavijeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/358c2ae42d44d718eea00ddcfa79ea1c/81803903388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703a734539c---fozaratesasodalewevotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1b706d647---pigosoziwobelorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e205bdfdf---xotuluzuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c76b60147---virudovalugixopolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13963909050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/slpjvr00ae1s2bjhi123hoddi2/26590278971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/rozosekaxopojomojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8jiucrf35iap4jol6bfpk7ihk/7909125805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4dff6661f3a92b5e192e5db1c2081c/14732198100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d60a196b13b7b6999f1d3f95e58c448d/fenavudozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd2b540f6a0885b68d146155ebd5804/webav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/bosajugutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2139674046---zibojamenexuzatarov.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_off00012297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12297 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 8c1fd89778d8be0fff3cc6e770eeabe3a11611d066bb9156d7d3a112ec29c51b
font_01_sfnt_off00013c5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C5B 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 1bc6ce30aecdfee6d3e60f2e07830decd0afd6cb8f562a36201de5294a94ea21
font_02_sfnt_off00016b61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1