Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a12485da2dd375f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:17:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 96d2b30ffa400975d45f3e8cb3022dcd SHA-1: f1b5fa8823b1e3360e8e62ec64cd2ca06c309292 SHA-256: 3a12485da2dd375f10e87c6eae663f3939e9e43ddb264c5cafe9ad202a84ab51
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The presence of invoice or payment language suggests a lure to trick users into clicking these malicious links. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afee09195ee---58749387124.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/18076338906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/51915956169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/90944887383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/legogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/wuvazabiwukorebopupuroro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/566p764l29hcqe1thd6jc5ta89/ketumaduwegabakeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/wozunemijewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuocmambason.com/upload/fckimagesfile/9eaa20d5f111cc97ac98bbb97a6bf67c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f98e92b57d---lizekenelowezesegebuwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/libegosokanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161082f32de924---tawowejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/47676677226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830b6a29c70---nozadabaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7925118bd1be0054815ac8aa5a8ef770/pozilawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b84f4abf88---73479388004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705c06f13e6---86755520785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kfkj5e7srefbdrrve2cjgp4or/51534425478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c9ae1383811e14d9766159a619f88b3/3488858973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/wekapovigewukosogajokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/pizusirutudipipimuwibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1e6bdb798---zapipiduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=introducing+sociology+class+12+ncert+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://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_off0000d961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD961 17984 bytes
SHA-256: c120c746cd407c2470706f496922d8ad66c49771809d3501abeb15a1cd404bf0
font_01_sfnt_off0001077f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077F 11132 bytes
SHA-256: d602dbbb1d71a6cffdd571db7312ce50451d69b61006d88c466cdc193ab5e8cd
font_02_sfnt_off00012189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12189 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1