Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12fbd21e6d74490b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-28 10:36:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 03872ddfc0d0c8aafb014162cfecbdcb SHA-1: 24362fafe7a77b60cfe6c5904da6e2100ee94ae0 SHA-256: 12fbd21e6d74490b80b051fa6e0e8ccbb9da5ba706f60a15d1bb4738ce30e80d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure with an image-only design and embedded action triggers. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://yuilchem.com/userData/board/file/xaberobudavumujudozuvowij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://konyanincigkoftecisi.com/userfiles/file/roluvinubasubejirago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/dabawozumowekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/bopewivaretorojijabinop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/20198129775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/582ba4af08eb48bc3abeb44378fdb7a0/14507032480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lianbang123.com/uploads/files/202109010108501838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangtaoad.com/uploads/userfiles/file/32663061166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/83772723525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/34124248221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40889659762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegym.com/uploads/files/202109030823388422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nalizixizoreteziwazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/82290981774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614071f7cc899---55730864014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/58241975212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factorycontrolprojects.com/userfiles/file/27233165968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49l0tho39bf9r57v57ncdh6j50/fanizor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunbot.com/upload/files/vabonedevisimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://around-sicily.net/userfiles/file/79816115320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/52623700885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcrm.cloud/upload/files/mefotiropakinewabogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewidor-gmbh.de/uploads/files/kolopolelasitobebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/bitelebikozumagulojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ma+clinical+psychologyPDF 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_off0000b029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB029 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 57c348faf695481f76b3b35b960235bb14ddd983ea654b842f74383e00beb9d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B7 14124 bytes
SHA-256: 31c500f71d9641032ee26df2f8c9d0f1ca54ae2eb04ff26db45ec1c38bf2ffe8
font_02_sfnt_off0000ead3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1