Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12c47e5c599ef0a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:24:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6e4a2f03bff3ff7f085f55d6e97c2edc SHA-1: cd6567c169b8cae822d7e0e7db5bcc6ed46a247c SHA-256: 12c47e5c599ef0a1e09fad905fa4bb53592d8af4c43e16fec30ada9b5475f82b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to PDF files hosted on compromised CMS uploads points to a coordinated effort to distribute malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612db64e7c1a8---38054090203.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/314b6dac1d7328b90946ee5c072e6dce/gupuvimisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/63023435075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schnauzermountainminiatures.com/clients/17729/File/8580842145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/26280989091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791be413621---panenikaminatinedalote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrp5lrhcateqijoj5oqsce9j44/wejaxifokukexolaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayocazar.com/images/elfinder-1.1/files/file/rasopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608541d17a369---51875468584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db70cc07d3---pavujuxodepafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55733318999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stdtekstil.com/upload/ckfinder/files/16473118640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820642712c5---5119681855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b38616c1a7a97b54fd1e4f63ad745615/gurakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079004c83438---29111098123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/los5a2tuar8rjr6j160epprvmb/wudanisedilubepawewagoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f543e894003---58000227764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd35dd06e9---gofojelepepogigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210625175210_1895015645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/fopepinene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/mazamimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e241034f9---5692998348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/liwovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f3c57ea397100d0342c1af97f1bc208/koridiwiditefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deasreunion.com/clients/860224/File/27332549580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10234172495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=do+i+have+to+print+a+shipping+labelPDF 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_off0000e553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE553 10736 bytes
SHA-256: e1a534f8325f66128a3764137786d90c693b1db53e187dfeda534c6e39d3e6d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB9 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 37825a14fba77ecbdea5094662bff83f98e5401dd8c78d7d07368174313f27b1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1