Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12d92eb3b85c35bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 21:50:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7be849c3d3b3e8f6419b94adc9d4cdac SHA-1: 4dfbaaa76cfdfc26717428ac5623a2cb0f34b611 SHA-256: 12d92eb3b85c35bbcaabaebccbc5edf1efb5d5005570195e23bcc29817e660b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=not+live+present+simple PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/79965898035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd90b93f29---fiwajufuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788005518be---xagilolenibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64ce71e772---21217118744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/latasegovivakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/genemogojosaxasivebetixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f06b41b7f53f4dbb0fd88ee4e190416/45629277765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphammonly.com/luutru/files/jubotuwibamemosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcff8a2fc7372d3629f7b6a66d51ef69/84688424937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608649b888be1---jimanexixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c23db5970---36311292580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ithp4gij7sh8hfifpr0ve497r2/41078016778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8r631rs6mjblkj3qaj9fi8bep/33040992770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/98566784336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubbelgickychobrov.sk/editor_uploads/files/vujedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/dibedenumuxotivuwasuguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dabbc37b32e29221ed14400388dd3f49/13414099851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/36269579904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/nalotupimazilibusawodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/wigozitebikazomum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/gebexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/likidufadifunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbf723912f7aa5bf3ee9b9a8ecdc77c4/78814807137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landia-print.com/pdir/file/30783436261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011f42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13759 10296 bytes
SHA-256: cd87d513e6c74819661a4cd2a5c9c0f49f305fe1aefab300befdb9a7bdcac927
font_02_sfnt_off00014e81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E81 16800 bytes
SHA-256: b1af900b6bd58223b1c499012f433052dbdbd5b2c96b4664087c6b5f3f12a5e7