Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12e57024cc916d59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-10-20 07:32:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a4772bda75c4ffde25e3d0877c150a68 SHA-1: 2c4fc39029ba78c84b1532b0232b9bdba4e3474a SHA-256: 12e57024cc916d59a4bd3af6480f6745b6567ea19ec28c031b7d61e456ff1f57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are associated with link farms or compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cover+letter+sample+for+graduate+accountant PDF link annotation
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/rumibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zitawanukafukoluwuzeboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d4535fc0a80d04371b0322af9e6432d/noxavowilobatopegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/50042945348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/fisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyen.pvl-soft.com/site/files/31097307954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/42647713600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/39838430687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161491e0d71da6---toxemetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/xijimotovavapuzeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202109270034414761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f1a9d8b79460ebc6231f2edfd2ed87e/fixefozivedulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensi-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/93614293447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs/files/jidapejap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/xetogapezilibixiwevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/dibiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16161cf5b0182e---lekiwolavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonerofset.com/userfiles/file/49313922330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306574a991d---raxereroxosonufute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ef4c3f721205caf12206ed4d924e42/88317794900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ysmenmidwestindia.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/juwafomanexopupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66820440868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/85514089185.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_off0000eb7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7F 17948 bytes
SHA-256: e705d0a123382afd8c46e4216835e4349759c4c2582b5713dce9080e4f7cc0a8
font_01_sfnt_off000119a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131BF 11068 bytes
SHA-256: ea920c3eca229804b6761f999cb959d71f0a1c7f195bdc21220a81e1c19b74c7

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