Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12c2b8f36a17a1a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 09:49:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1daead23479bbce06577fb3ac01076a4 SHA-1: 414c99fed46b15f1246c733c1da65d1b3b54a3b5 SHA-256: 12c2b8f36a17a1a6f70b488117b32348ad78bc4fbdd0ef221526a2f3c12c8338
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF that impersonates a cloud document lure, aiming to deceive the user into opening it. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is likely used to exploit vulnerabilities or download additional malicious content. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites further supports a malicious intent, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25434360340.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/39945879946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.whoamiandwhyamihere.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40872410111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.info/files/file/zoziwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burbank.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/zifika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3bea41c1b---gimevarabejisemupuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99404540589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniontsg96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45074917171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d41ab0bad---86230141220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/dupipazopuxumamufidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906043326786164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/velujasasobirasopuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/28954028992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stomatoloska-ordinacija-rijeka.com/files/xeduvakalakalafen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/mukezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/440caba094a47100c29ef691ef979358/lobemujiketujukoxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/rajumajoguzazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/zabivakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-marche.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56987952961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endobible.com/userfiles/file/86576015084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leprofit.ee/cmsfile/contentfiles/95974006659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=other+in+android+storagePDF 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_off0000dd65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF577 17668 bytes
SHA-256: dfdebb1365d13b8b1ce469984f0a5b157ea79d74de325c55cfbb3c8b63767f96
font_02_sfnt_off0001231c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231C 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 8e20df0e86310589864b25b234a06b6245ba3475bb351dd469c79dd7d98ecf7f

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