Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12bcd8b4a34913c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:32:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8fa1b0cb2988f0e8139e62d5c635f04f SHA-1: 3468666f162bd10fbc4a378a7f992f5d8bcf9e07 SHA-256: 12bcd8b4a34913c9bdffd3caf1b5981fb2982c1a8455809d6f1ff300228e10b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=applications+of+mathematics+in+space+science+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/rogufabizajulovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609219276662b---vexevalokonarogorurake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088564b532e4---lexewabikatopoxadakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ab5d7a977---98843975887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/46822799968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f77023f91abb48a9cee90f5cdfc6681b/31616784436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/pegusosesemowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abcb9f3c29---basawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///43910588460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bfbd9b3ab---60582298567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93ca81a054---jenujidomubadozifogabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b82c21f184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0adc763d954c649033bc3f3623595fc7/98216620885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab6d06472c---rexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/4798852765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4a3f7d9784577da80caee749d02990/deses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/65988965200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2bde74e527d577798f1bf934b68d1b6/xoguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9668dc376---zemotarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083024ce669c---88587100543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53c5f4320d---40262747035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/1468065590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbar.com/upload/files/90614977266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a45a4a6eb9941541c8deb755867e534/81703542099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ive-cal.it/file/9668797297.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018a96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A96 10764 bytes
SHA-256: a954bbf27d31f51c8cabd2163ee82f526177025984d7a1cc69b3c4f22ab2824a
font_01_sfnt_off0001a32e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A32E 22200 bytes
SHA-256: 3086bfc95a8430b817979a7c77f923caae4c2f1bb5912a88e6b897fb9a4c9a24
font_02_sfnt_off0001dac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DAC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001f2d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F2D6 16208 bytes
SHA-256: 703724f25b6a74ab05caf06b3062c9a587ee53cf61369e459f88541cf89c8cee