Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12c14fe2afefeafc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:15:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9713dd142d3b33960f6167a30d5a145e SHA-1: c90be45b8ebcda2c56ac9bde1020250efd36145e SHA-256: 12c14fe2afefeafc4108a17cc008ccaebcd6d80a94a61441344f5ea081af5fee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/74464090467.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82d04608b7---58337302995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/26048637771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/mapiwatamowutatuzid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moulindelarroque.com/userfiles/file/63723230774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/696b84fe9b7fa85960d3efd7657ad850/vikepagaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/73415698589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429133249786664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tratedu.net/ssss2018/assets/143ad273/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/userfiles/files/6cbe35fd990f89a89af9e9b9794c9530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rs6jr4rfge8n2r6e19ed2nkq29/dogugefufobudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1627017558_de9d4a680c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/zodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/26614486306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/52974619146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29255160028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d439c20803---miguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97f9aa2e33---zososu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slaterlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53502814dfdecda9966f29cb8b43e503/timoxuvanarumuvoxenifedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/88840295119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/61249547746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5efciqd1kq4tt8jlglj5cmjch6/83565181086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3q1ec2u16op3dltud5r67l3sg/17222721871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d903173ea4---pokeluxikijenita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=personification+in+shakespearePDF 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_off0000ea59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001026b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026B 18468 bytes
SHA-256: 0ce85d8e461d2af245fb1d948a480cb6cdaf8dff813256e0f3ba8e824d76be82
font_02_sfnt_off0001319f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1319F 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 8a4b8339d4292b8d4e98400f4c3a9e8b47cf6bd1804ad2ec3929f7c250797e5d