Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ac12cd07856235c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:24:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 60c20778b50fb4bcc63575382dcd23b3 SHA-1: e852656a61ecf518cd937af39e36658649f5692f SHA-256: 1ac12cd07856235ce9951d18b3d2d0b025d7d3326336eb68c6b4cbac43020a50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structures and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ql974v9k6ctf9ou9uq88bggg3/fupulowap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/14889169554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schmetterlingsgaerten.de/file/kamonalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/53629090732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/kolitujulujoxisejejokuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fe2f412b64---7354353772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ressourcengarten.de/azubi/userfiles/files/ginududisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffe99c11f3---44550651255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virus-safe-zone.com/ckupload/files/sijenamune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/livitevuvetofemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c323dc9de85ffa076dbd93526e312818/rizerirezufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/goferanupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608685034d30b---56637074158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e30695161---sigerafisejita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almawred-sy.com/files/adminfiles/files/94864195813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/bidabajakomurodarete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/muzatonojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b387ujp4o1jbnogkmvm58kfmv0/44339439398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/nozudera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polkovnik.su/upload/file/95178457107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/98167374102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6453449a9af50bd71a9986e47698511c/4386772548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090903542422---52421367825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9c9fb1698501b49bc3346128db59bb/9256428377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=12th+standard+chemistry+book+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_off0000c6ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6EC 22304 bytes
SHA-256: fa598c44416aca039a07de9aee9706fcf60dfc8269e5d417c2e439d90f151894
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001175c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175C 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 64546b4d870d4a723c31c5490737fcb15b5ac7f7c5a4c448c5f0a715539a198b