Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12f9dacfee9394dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-06-01 13:36:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 76454f6225b4cc7773eb30a5a308b894 SHA-1: d98b87ce7d596bbacc1e14ba1e325b0cc13c146d SHA-256: 12f9dacfee9394dc276277d5cb886c7ebec7cb5c2917acaaeffdaf4ebb06cc53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974191c7232---93771681762.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade9eeb24fb---82337700956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/34631276856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/48226289621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607156b6e30e9---76528705111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a108a8ee8b1ee3929cd42ddf21ca3050/dizorexenezoxasole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726fcf33c74---pevefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/1226647244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/suetipgesknpq27vjv0ccbf5t6/80510435795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/senoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ki6egpj3eebqb3p7vh7nfie25/sawabajoxakorobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ktf0n22ml3o22p4dkquecu1sr2/wizorapurojigizedotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04c82937497c1bd30fa0a9b642a27a10/zaxujafotezorita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3793faf81e4b02e76aa32a3b3f92c66/xizilajufulinuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609489a67ac60---tugaxoferunawajigogatoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b88648f1d1e7d84968e3330d40aa961/tepikosarasinut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896117b447e---68270807439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/22535628337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fmabf3m2fpuo1lpku42f4195sm/1344090165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=interior+angle+sum+of+convex+polygons+worksheet+answersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e3f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F6 5752 bytes
SHA-256: b71f80f8a8c74109bc1d59be7b9b976a8947d407f39b7ee725f721e1057fd95c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f78b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78B 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 3ef1c8b3645b36f4112136ac1d2067aac02764d8d519bf2d174751a48b777fdc
font_02_sfnt_off00011e1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E1B 16128 bytes
SHA-256: 0a2a469639173a14d5b878b13f894b603d292ca6f8699fe8ba435bd0143af243