Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12e1ec761e353719…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 20:30:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1e010ff1ee49bf36fc4af36064db0ed0 SHA-1: 4edc5a10206198607762d998450472c88c19c517 SHA-256: 12e1ec761e35371925876f1698fd8c09223b10a516c2568bcf04647ba43f78c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and heuristic firings point to a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9874

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.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99822123ea95508255d22035fd89a684/71078177267.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/95971534815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096534596369---furufipapedamija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac48263e812---vibirosukugiduma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608754d968736---96370669370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8e951f93c---15103974767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbffc74e20---pugilogedixakesofitamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866cef2a460---vifixukobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cbd9c34d9---vopaweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fea213f56---35192115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b78805a6144---27528191650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/joxozozonetozalizezibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.com/upload/userfiles/file///15008723673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///sowulizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a23bd1a1e---63908987980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/kulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur6doump4qf3mvnintq2um4jq6/golefuvaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/95669372867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f18830211a---10278954493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784f492c82b---lutuvugevulosikurozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88876692a45428acadf301620fc5590a/29455814103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonacorsi.it/file/86410470911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d36e3c10b078d954b44bac7b052c91/30337825337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/mowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=unit+circle+and+radiansPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011ab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB9 10248 bytes
SHA-256: cf65589e40b0171baed629f168d1aca4554eb4d1db73969e94bf4baa8f7a5097
font_01_sfnt_off000131db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131DB 19812 bytes
SHA-256: e95781f5a01e1733e244a33ec3a4a6a6f673fbfa3648a6e21edd6cd2b66bebd9
font_02_sfnt_off00016664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16664 16224 bytes
SHA-256: 7dd5fb61ea0ea1e3370d26720032e9d3de5740e898843eef2fe92164eee2597e
font_03_sfnt_off00017c42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1