Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12cc3c30fbfc4ec8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:38:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: bd67bf989dca85610ed587829ed7ec77 SHA-1: a9f9d8c9cd590b8c9cd82702f0e7ea5f95d71923 SHA-256: 12cc3c30fbfc4ec8ca7e45a61345cae471b2601d52f2d2f352609ef595a6e60c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of form-craft plugins suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6878e9652b---zuvitulupadapa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3100f201ec---rokesada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p02nopp7kqrb0dltubvpkfoqnf/kujilojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc23489404---29089644049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gf112ij1cfaa3bm6idtu1i8fr/kiwamutetaxopate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831d2cc639f---94772842887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d79321bf2---39717726116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094119f6efd9---womisareliluzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/852c479b78e453c7a96104b19a58ee78/32316111373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckqrkbggj3crte4ufiia8il13u/kulidovomiraromuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748f866d67a---guvugubojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080076db7c4c---gagovojatujakazowepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721ca58446a---69811268860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc466380fd5---71383788531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/36700496477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yorktownhs1987.com/clients/57482/File/nenuvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf88fd61421---58113050101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f75b37b91---66098703740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb091ae6c2987406246a1c7bcd11f3cf/wukijezefukakodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcsiprojectracker.com/userfiles/files/pileralisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/jodivag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/takemonerabisasafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb149337fc0b00e193f8a93d17c70ead/robenamamixujiremizofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/062dcad604dfa08f8d157ecd67870737/85729970723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=find+amplitude+from+equationPDF 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_off00010454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10454 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 159fa98c10eac3ca755a462057eaa0fce154fc072ee2be28bdda51d724a9d518
font_01_sfnt_off0001302d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1302D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14844 10712 bytes
SHA-256: b69ba70a72f656267b045da6ee1b96529b51185ce2b4ce52f6c497e1e6becc16