Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12ff8d1ae762a8e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:56:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a28f8e11cc33db7504e2e85317fd58ff SHA-1: 4edaa740f345e621d520f6a710c83582cf6e5814 SHA-256: 12ff8d1ae762a8e25a136e5ec78f5e311eb9d1807e8ed68ca1d74772e09b7bd1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and raw IP addresses, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead the user to a phishing page or download further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/zawimaturibafuxigaxeri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/15278909171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxululifokiferadawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/74593999671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efe6d3d6c1f---wubobedafubafufenota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/xadorexovasijudurit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///33586910322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mprime.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3660821983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a260706acdf---32759928956.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f59d695da053fb853db1fd639d9d5ead/pafomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/zezezetelujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ee9bd94fb---88866383556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naso10.com/userData/board/file/boxajesom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rococosofa.com/files/files/87512081242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05994a8d55---vikobutexemetopugivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/56597306954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021060223143810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d5bb23d42---30992379509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/4312568142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg8e8p41pkrso50e0p5qv5mbhb/96060146871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ab7a19f388---87571127749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhg97thn77fm034k6o987e2dg3/fovogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=medical+microbiology+made+ridiculously+simple+pdfPDF 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_off0000cd27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD27 17212 bytes
SHA-256: ed8697bb7dff68a3c1311ed94cb2d47673974408c92bcfcfb900c2c9935ff3d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CD 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 5ad233a66ea331594e621c6ccc15e252856c2fd3c27e17d6be860ecf05449bdd
font_02_sfnt_off00011346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11346 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1