Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a12e80482654ec6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 18:33:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f9d8f0f1d2f5c1a178848b0725267aeb SHA-1: 449650a65a6fced2f6487fbb9c722ca005529dd4 SHA-256: a12e80482654ec6d23187e5c53a27d726e64880cfe3073b31d85005c4a02f830
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is classified as malicious, with a high ML score and ClamAV detection indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a lure for a free game download, directing users to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. These files likely serve as a dropper or redirect to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834ae347581---wumunalu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608624f28e049---6963757554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905a3127894---lorozegivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/73238976558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b453549859a---72657277178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8518rujq5mfsmhf3455b66lt21/50468702518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b860ecf2da9---26072960976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/510a12dcf51bb505cd5489b279ef026a/tenutitilaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/20032893473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094830f79c0d---fuxozogagigodufapanolutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20fb0b071a---jopididogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/barivisamodetizidun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a145a622c89---95649300519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/barakokusokilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071becb3e747---zovizibobutukunefidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/laviruvukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087375773f70---xexurikamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+wwe+2k16+highly+compressed+64mbPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF78 6268 bytes
SHA-256: 372442038499c9ee2535fc39d157d3dda07a5f423972e708a0321eb627bc5ae7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C6 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 898f621c072fb038e2701e3206f543d3e47036496c13d6f9403d47af4fe75df9