Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d12f0e012a33bcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-10 07:15:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 034ae8f978090d311328d7b6208da530 SHA-1: 6eb4becc50f7cad965870fc1c3a37a2275705044 SHA-256: 8d12f0e012a33bcbae6395aab5d4c1082a5a28b8755e96983f06f5d798e1f987
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious PDF detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates an intent to execute code within the PDF viewer, likely to facilitate further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=found+silverfish+in+bed PDF link annotation
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/82096829520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hujalc767e01f0348b3j40cadt/911602877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/sisimabojipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986e2d19369---wuraroxonapawemikizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92d8d88b61ea3a72748b9ab834b626ab/zazirizewage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23653bdaa1e19e457fedec525527086d/83421852702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879b20c4f08---tajomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a01fa4c6abc74e57e92fb1a640f72a/wodis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/tidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083292ed502e---53151739448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rawujizanozibuwazame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f291767a7---35024612080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef4cd5fea165ad79cdb190609238b07c/84675316425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/98485140403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7d429532e---fojukufebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/wisixekupatetiwomoxusozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpapunm65m2inb1o1fsbbokb86/54750550912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916d5215a0a---39503192364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a184cce0b---56331437972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/65300711380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de7661441e9a7c5d2e8ad1130241e4ad/wexebibalodelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608551901ef53---wozapefonarezotopepigorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61d5f6ee543baced4760fea1ae3041c/61980078503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/sijowajudewezuzimikikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenekedjieva.com/uploads/file/42690218363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fc3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3D 16732 bytes
SHA-256: f9cd0a3d0632adac06e45e684cd68396ca78722c893d886d78dd918256d15ba3
font_01_sfnt_off000127bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BF 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 645f91c022b68a2b0965c57e28a21a58431afc62a514884e963b8f5a889d3402
font_02_sfnt_off00013f6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1