Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12f4ea3b31c75bba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 06:52:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e4d2582d3028f7cc6ca0d53e0b3db528 SHA-1: d7f7e3c9bbd60701453e975f41c33b46d6fb43ff SHA-256: 12f4ea3b31c75bba3290e2715be4963bb5c6e233ba374a6b0a8239c28b497c41
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a lure for invoices or payments, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, reinforces this. Although no scripts were extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80d9544ff5---wefututibo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/78681205710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8k9nk85tul0em0fdbpu3ggb80/lizoborogadebetikegito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/kelimogamosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084703213c3e---pilagolefinifavebafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/xirogawomufukepokesukarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/94008008106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s34eo4jamkkvh03hu13gnbcu0e/24125042955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polaria.cz/images/file/bifuwobipulaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9fee6936fd---88966848134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cd0a62af3---24325887720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867fd2a9247---gewinuzuveguvaduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ad079d269---vozexikazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63f2e42f37483e170cd91ccda78a0404/pabedonin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/92982361544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a9c14a4ee---gujetuvomegareku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767fb400b95---61416559573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/jasovamisuxugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba2298066d68aa9925f2c333db64eea9/fetomonozurafura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inks.bg/userfiles/file/1990478386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/73061653221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/3824813995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+fullz+cvvPDF 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_off0001193a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1193A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001314c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1314C 19472 bytes
SHA-256: cbb2929656b3ea2b0deea4c8748c133052abb52960dc4e8385c97a0fc4d34e53
font_02_sfnt_off00016473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16473 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 0adc806c23652a5460b4fe483b805b9b6e133cbd9235b584af386135d88892c1