Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a12ba1fe56b964fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fe755cbc1e5ce2f475bdfad88a18c3b2 SHA-1: 4aaed30cdff0ee52114e008bc88b33acd7144362 SHA-256: a12ba1fe56b964fe7507ca918a617871117e497b1e34c5b8131b466e4021094b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rusalka+aria+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/kidimopofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caa31e7327b---26577298419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugreat.com/filespath/files/20210831153156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/754add1f01f87d46213bf5e1a647c266/xixajokefubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/mugufexubowitimavelobefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u03bn8v8o90tgpne948t1ufbpq/rixidesudewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iskoruma.com/upload/ckfinder/files/3749286102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f7rqfa7qs6it5adqul5pj3th5/2190594027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-delighted.com/user_img/files/wizepunimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/sulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98888010462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0289c885a---58891413401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/kefotufogizebewuvodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121d0ea7e8f4---27617094251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/169bc472c7cf08aba9fd584a1099a900/zigewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49415631174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/48873654098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/kaluwewusidasuwuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/92044467135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50538774021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/65519755799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/63638943739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/56609610923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/zezamibepolefaxodufebepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd4a1d788df7b7f3d25c78f1abc4213/94976957074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/ruvatuwexopefite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/labowixite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/il1t42u6guvlm6ijojn7ehgoj5/kukunopozimototil.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_off0000de18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f62a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62A 21160 bytes
SHA-256: 477d65e52263f4ea260752be2615f69e3fce276c992cf8fd9efb03d2e0239b9e
font_02_sfnt_off00012c54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C54 10272 bytes
SHA-256: d9749d4e6751975f746cd77d68ea5ebd5327188b50a8564acd5dba8f89eb685c