Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12c7b3d8adba3b83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:15:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0185d530b06e4669cf5c38c32fa1983a SHA-1: 5c152b821589a0efc2dca1fadc011d543e48f949 SHA-256: 12c7b3d8adba3b83b5fc0b854776091e1c1875a2b7a33c2b580dc948484a8d65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a redirector to a malicious payload or phishing page. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138dc68a7534.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1ai/files/file/rodepepofedikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/92621958818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinijewasodoxedelofisabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvpbuilding.com/userfiles/file/makamesimivaziwubodumesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diadiemvui.com/upload/files/gasemubutideselun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613746bf1990f---50508297785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/73252483885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/wagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazionche.com/files/34986444322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/gigawajaxusuguxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161430ecb56b8c---64632545441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcrm.cloud/upload/files/25351362030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/kosanosujetometateduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f584d176af5f17efe6d75647e9b88b63/2680617074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oppedisanorobertosrl.com/userfiles/files/34556991718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rais.bg/uploads/file/xibodotexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatwalledmond.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30584108897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowufadugemupogefova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/40184051840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=administracion+de+riesgos+pdfPDF 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_off0000d54b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD54B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5D 18432 bytes
SHA-256: b1d03ba28c6f5095a84559148cb800535f394eaf77f5c03cf5c341bc42c111a6
font_02_sfnt_off00011bf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF5 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 9029e02b57e1ef87d285b8c84dc06fdecea0f51025dd8c00cfe2a539dac2e00a