Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ba336141b44edf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-10-03 23:38:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: dd3cf4786047c15c4b9bbecf8d3e4828 SHA-1: 5808b8253de3cc5acd7982f58c5732ea6f630a74 SHA-256: 12ba336141b44edfba29981ab9d543a57c830c0a4d3aad66ae1eba31508e3e34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are part of link farms on disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://ridendo.cz/files/file/2118814466.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pedalibikidoveputumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/weveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fu96o5nfepjt32lg7ii04pseum/sabinugatapokopibiriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613796e5cccf2---vigujepoxebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614decb71d0ce---zalagelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbelt.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/lugisejono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineerindia.com/admin/userfiles/file/7070890505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a603f151e7edca2d9b15defc1f20ee9/kunorusule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibikifidotose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents/files/kifuvumodejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sualpturizm.com/userfiles/file/wasajinuvipawudawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazrabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24757256301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/93384554726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161532da64e48a---nofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210925100626683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxlinder.com/admin/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/zegubisuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotlinepro.in/admin/userfiles/file/23158271242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temtechnologies.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55586004397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trisad.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugidavimezuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f820d9e71e---77477310674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ef1607bd9d---vewanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/zumepikigutawasisuxowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heureka-cz.eu/files/xutowudasadebufotine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+last+of+us+2+all+collectibles+guidePDF 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_off0000b26c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB26C 10876 bytes
SHA-256: b11cc64e51dddf0ad534bbdb7432915f5f137dab9f7bc0009eee9c5a2cdaddae
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8A 15592 bytes
SHA-256: 11b0cb6b49632d5931d315bd80c7b7a6bec9767b9b51889eb3457fdc4775a872
font_02_sfnt_off0000f371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF371 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1