Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ce49934e176a4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-10-10 23:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a8c6bb175e958ee804ffa3ed7622e184 SHA-1: 64e821fdf2718ab2c8b181e1df5f9aa79cde3ca7 SHA-256: 12ce49934e176a4f7302b04444299a0060d445b247f68f3cf7404db65b956c77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan-like behavior. The presence of numerous external URIs and the nature of the hosting suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://ks-klinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74380237602.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/25433014925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdesignuk.com/userfiles/files/busowajojaranun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/88227586285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://word.mn/uploads/assets/24329909212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sesconbs.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pesek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coverline.ro/userfiles/file/12151780342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/lunumamoxivirewuwewamulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/47406509057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/vegogozokikamutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cmedica.com/ficheiros_upload/file/40099891418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/99654325771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equimat-cheval.fr/file/858099533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/895j2a3jtduf55jnft39c0gab5/webodevuzavepetujifalibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhremhoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/36089064666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/8413888271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suny.cz/files/file/kuzalufoperironini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/admin/images/fckImg/file/29159509102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7555910961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pudifetevafegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.ph/app/webroot/img/files/66933747453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/tiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30360e2e837a5ebc80b9a643bda3cd41/41196630077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615d204200e4c---nuwuwurosotuzotidifeviwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/libita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=grey%27s+anatomy+episode+guide+2021PDF 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_off00011c71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C71 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 831a177b79c43fe85e7263e7e991595fd209dad83dfa936562e77ffcd482a8b8
font_01_sfnt_off000136dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014eee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EEE 20876 bytes
SHA-256: 49058c1a7ccd7be2de68c2026335f781ee26d93468c30b0f12333f187352d673