Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12c6b00797122df4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:37:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1a6b19e8bb59451ddad9194242138d50 SHA-1: 9bc2ae37228b9e99161bfe88af8410af4ec2489a SHA-256: 12c6b00797122df4ce8621ea4052334c99dd39e2251cd7e1aaefda2a0fe80374
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, combined with a 'download button' lure, indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sago+palm+ingestion+dogs PDF link annotation
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/gomigazok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ct3ffda7tc2hm6j7onu8deqio7/bopesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099578447524---87707288644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dca3432a02cfcc4c1ca596e5654a937/dojulugawenojokatotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114046377fa8---ruzifotoguvijanasibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae5811104c---36028670440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/77455126695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beliangka.com/contents//files/57791968295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070448c77dd1---buritatosajole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cqc-material.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/24011727979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/naninalew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/wulotelegefufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b12bc259fc94573fc00174f2cc1f23af/dirulopotanuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdbelektrotechniek.nl/uploads/file/20000979370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajasthanmetals.com/userfiles/file/mexopivurupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulendengin.com/upload/ckfinder/files/didilupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/lizabamavinupatobewutak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ae9b1d03f9b05c7a6923c1ee302f970/87405738245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b25927f6c9ea0dedf4ca6d99680cecf1/tunemitubamufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanopena.cz/upload/file/54428539745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e829e21a5---98783157298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spia62j3e02uusao8apih79343/42227518661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1201070a991a3778ecaae30c7ef915c/babanubuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/86929541590.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_off0000e277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE277 10708 bytes
SHA-256: e7972817f6679752a98e3af5f6b22d2f63527e89af8e20ce2f05ca3dc6bf5772
font_01_sfnt_off0000fac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC8 18200 bytes
SHA-256: c8bf576ae4533f1b27d313062fa2b04bb4c3dab5e6c96169c5175b93f30b1098
font_02_sfnt_off00012a8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1