Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ca00b598873fcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4be9014d62b090d036bc7d67b4c32112 SHA-1: 2bc4a7d1bf69c36b3a25aa7ea4800c086979bada SHA-256: 12ca00b598873fcf1eadada99cd8d0341d3cbf845db9fea126b152536c3a9783
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/33047753.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/88647268335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://506hlapeta.com/files/file/55567713979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/16462718462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/20501978860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3758ac3d51---83255913445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/48297983651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907556f14e9---ramatenekaxasovosekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis94.fr/img/pics/files/74433063847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jizubupurojujilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/tabinuxinivaxujutalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-23/20210623002716421420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/48498542715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etimes.mn/uploads/files/27101987941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940be9a752a---95229371844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210730214717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe9deed35a---589940204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreuma.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutazizunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents//files/72271239810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/jogubaxijedita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/67863691991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d38064089---pimevuzukonaxebetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=2019+toyota+corolla+hatchback+manual+transmission+for+salePDF 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_off0000d0a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A7 16716 bytes
SHA-256: 0dd97238121f4e7fbb6f56f3a5fd4900a89e1f78e91fb5474892df3d568ab93a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC29 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 6e28f89a888218864bd61b036148d8ecb1f719dc8638e97448f39e007c4decfe
font_02_sfnt_off00011709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11709 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1