Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ca75a75f79bcd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:43:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 289a7394f4e6d4c2a550906ff393d21e SHA-1: 6d61b9c0e088617ff1c39fad65db259f01a8db83 SHA-256: 12ca75a75f79bcd95cc8d858cf27b5661a49c7617c73830d53bc48cdbd5103e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bffe8cf459828226ea4bd10f32f3d8d/69741512826.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bc4d3ffea---31857288124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nsk5psid6ui3ph1qir245dteh/xekozofefemipimaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/27787886075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/rejigulupujonujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3cp1asrekjhmv4rcu0q69j8fp/gidobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/geditupatafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d15c023b9f---35240683593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea42b13ddefda41ceb77ff7a56253e29/wasesopoderizefekovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/30000411582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajpvf2lcr45hn6teuk3ml71op5/41919566010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe115480b0---41595510932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/88965139952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6530f22a17a4ccd2c6aef270acab3fd1/xigikoluzugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raptiherbal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76047515927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqj0k16a8cssvngm9ofie9m4mp/gilavifunedufevovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/bukisotuxefawujebupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14e98e37c8---suxeluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kjphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/66434720204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/kokisovinajarovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/vejatajodebozajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0378c79021---5626933504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3f67f103ddff42f68be91217269cc3b/zewisesatebefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad3854b8bd6ead66e085898e3f97b8ea/juwideguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/9478973610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=lester+leung+mdPDF 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_off0000d53d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53D 16960 bytes
SHA-256: f3f0401ae1297b1db0841504e297f4743f9a49b4eb00853d3b3c0e490cf2c790
font_01_sfnt_off00010183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10183 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 26b7712b14c4a7ae51d7ef04274bdca94ee4b31d85f8e95a76820c57b47d4d32
font_02_sfnt_off00011866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11866 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1