Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12d1ec0764eebac9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 21:47:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a40cf866d0200e5e7f8f295540bd7b8b SHA-1: 7f2ef7a307e65eaf0aacf742e6010e51191dc039 SHA-256: 12d1ec0764eebac984a2557d2cd3dd927d5d4286aa92979be7b0757f629538e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to direct users to various PDF documents hosted on compromised websites. The presence of multiple external URIs and a PDF link farm heuristic indicates an attempt to distribute or lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/35978576659.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://spielundlicht.de/content_provider/documents/files/zupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/jamodabugetilin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186e4c4ac7e0d926bef4ebc6d98e8583/kujivateme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/nekupusivetobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/60472672180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/55568514877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/97862408359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97566908268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/larin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents/files/jifunapojijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toszegisuli.hu/userfiles/file/sasejurudixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-housing.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naxezidegap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://captainkillmite.com/uploads/files/202109031102525564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76174478748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613114196c022---88779523618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajazitorapopetilogeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c75d6a1ccce548865229895e625798a/2904218104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/84844927951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroyvodservice.ru/upload/File/lulusasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vxclouds.com/userfiles/file/todalufejasufebadixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b583cdaee80b36377c9d189f7e41d75/fosawosatewikuxuduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=download+hotspot+shield+vpn+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000df95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A7 17996 bytes
SHA-256: c4276e246c9b815b679bd9e26e58548c26647338e7240dfff5df9ea27f0d5c23
font_02_sfnt_off00012651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12651 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd81c3786098ce449a589c16e9cf1af4293c34eac9d2fb6a63a12db30b98e7e