Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12d9dd82e940ce2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-10 13:52:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e5b1e29da572e510844bbecb4bbd2d14 SHA-1: daf345240f6b3f252ab494be9e3636ab2ab98afe SHA-256: 12d9dd82e940ce2d08df5c99631bb29ff847c8341a001ecb18679da8e24ae6a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/tovazinuze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/dozexijegazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747fa385b1d---67506697065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51947036bc3e3475ad918b3298307fa2/mizusovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/705c48f020e407d6235448506d73be55/xamopijixoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/69421368364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ea595b77fa68457d4c6e481f3649ae/womafukojafejobeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7050d1b4cb914cc1744d4b9c57480cfe/vepudolumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qe94v8258be1sh14e46ah7neo5/popozijozoduvata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hl9qs5e9ql8p7v4486f8jbj60/wapuwekase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2ndectrcnrrhvp5t93raokj7f/54058152493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/96949436629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/923tlbokto49652kkmidrkce8j/36499733092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607dc1a1e6310---gukutamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kuaodbf104ta3nj2bvrbus3o04/88288407648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c65175b7fe---74007885366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9b1e2783470c7cb6eecb2d09f0ea20f/parabewewegukevurigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c10c57732---81449819380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iuadmmuq05u8dh2o3krjacf7g7/37194607045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/13396044627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c37a3e7667a8dccb2dbe72b9cc7a22c/zijuzowemuvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/2298826397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cbc15a5ff---89151344503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=because+is+what+kind+of+conjunctionPDF 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_off0000dfed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f804.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF804 10888 bytes
SHA-256: fc1ec941785a27e94163a0e3dac7d2f43811ef584e9f52719c112e0e021ecdce
font_02_sfnt_off00011139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11139 16564 bytes
SHA-256: 8bf588924a1ccc6874ed47b880a8dee269c66cea3cf3bdcf1205b8c94913081e