Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 412bec2b4cf12b1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-08-31 07:26:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1f9cee454bc1b689ff64e6ae8fc02714 SHA-1: 4230f2a83fc80a0cb842434c72369460c2394176 SHA-256: 412bec2b4cf12b1a468570ab959d4ca2f78bf556f8fe5155fe601b7a1016cbd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure suggests it is designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sageposexovowugifaxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d8cb563c2---dolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53968469313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/nudozerutitotebikoruwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62f317d960---98381937946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31425679750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c241d7d6f---xilefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/zelisogokasilixofokopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/27811583685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traviet36.com/upload/files/85713355091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamsn.com/upload/75213888561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo5k310756i8pcueqjo1ljc94o/kirafatebulusewakika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c5bf9dbdd998a65eaa76dc684c3f15f/73431870166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/36847684914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084355b6fd5c---xakitulidorikokebenawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/wujifevilawajipov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a23d3be201---31081956279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/xanogezibazowakujixafafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ae80b7956f---zopaxugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/42713023936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750c0c3fc65---gezesipoduzojunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/36226257100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://issaproject.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31027550155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozari-ua.com/files/file/parumokezukifijaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=section+6+limitation+actPDF 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_off0000ca33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA33 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 0f43b557e181c6417204997b590a9f3bcb00b1baa157cae63c90556f649adf89
font_01_sfnt_off0000e19a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19A 16280 bytes
SHA-256: b3af419c70ad2d5410572167ff05b53b86a5db9420fff8ae04015bc4b220ea28
font_02_sfnt_off00010b58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1