Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12fd24ed02303634…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:30:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a2c9f38b4efffcc61854a7fb4bc8e138 SHA-1: bb8665cc4397578f25be6d774cb9b3d16565dec8 SHA-256: 12fd24ed02303634d017f87a9292af044f633a7eb78a6fef67110aedc59243e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, many using 'utm_term' parameters, suggests an attempt to distribute phishing content or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fast+ram+cleaner
    • http://expnavi.com/sites/all/sites/default/files/file/xadozubapupuvumolasoxovez.pdf
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/satimeguxuterapo.pdf
    • http://toflight.mobi/attachment/ckeditor/files/5c7bfadd855592f87481f9098cc0fbbd.pdf
    • http://hyundaidongdo3s.com/images/files/84769998823.pdf
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/41531605845.pdf
    • https://tigaintan.com/contents/files/95961560462.pdf
    • https://lanhcongnghiepthinhphat.com/upload/files/27712811586.pdf
    • https://www.loisirs-auto-occasion.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35905443060.pdf
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/memadet.pdf
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents/files/rasimejupop.pdf
    • http://dienlanhtruongson.com/upload/files/dutenufarivaf.pdf
    • http://sgo-bage.com/public/files/files/80953013674.pdf
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ae752c195---29160665423.pdf
    • https://www.tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82628652327.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e6fcdc3b5---lopimoseleropuwetagapebo.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0f6421d88---47533366874.pdf
    • http://umartravel.com/files/54247017888.pdf
    • http://duplisite.com/userfiles/file/dapodivetipe.pdf
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce0885b90aa71a1e9cc8525e2aa97023/fuxini.pdf
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/powogorudupenug.pdf
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134074d4737b---16934164729.pdf
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613416bfe7047---vugubu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc03.bin
5250fed065b5ef34553289f28dfbd2d8cd55260b2dc4882584a92763c5bcbcc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC03 10156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2bc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2BC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000face.bin
78f70ceac1744c670dd9d261371e1e1e57bf538498d1c2517e828a5734e50f45
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACE 17428 bytes