Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12bf3322e51a1f32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:10:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 80c87538c3ed5ffad0e95400d1e47a36 SHA-1: 36cf3370db6a2419313afe5ada13485586630943 SHA-256: 12bf3322e51a1f32933afd11d2c9d1431e612fc8461b7c91a704e5dece9f1337
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. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=move+data+from+android+code PDF link annotation
    • https://kitchensofdiablo.com/upload/file/rinekevibirefekusibuwovuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/faxekaboxura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.cfonewsletter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nodejexipabupudoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/66673448947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614151f1d4631---45082919639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86681039541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/28038983404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441a2bc1679---90453025927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/28075644445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sassanoproperties.com/FCKeditor/file/64506410214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginzaoakland.com/uploads/files/gekuwipeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/divuzoziminanimubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satisfytech.com/ck/upload/files/58523207696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7bc1a01bf58943c10f12176a806feb5/58391417142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10644627442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/61878845111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/55937844716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testgit.begurholidays.com/uploads/userfiles/files/37734492823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ap-arte.ro/fckupload/file/ziguzajewibiwavaxutigabup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143da7bbc3a8---3746886539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/gofasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/nixugoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52437697025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2198947eb671d0d78498b409758ff8f5/88649956749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/livezonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/bigegobipewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ae109a31a8eda0e72261b38eabeff4/fozakoxilukusowakoxexu.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_off0000ed03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED03 10480 bytes
SHA-256: c7a85b30e85e100a81aa5b0e4f94a7a76c2ecc21b52dc852c4dad41982c5a04e
font_01_sfnt_off000104db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CED 18052 bytes
SHA-256: cc5ce93dc550b1411d4907f127e9a23615254dd2c0174b3d1aa5e8ec01d9aacd