Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b12725f83e7a0538…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d473395d9f0681248e2b921fbfb62dac SHA-1: aa57960f711fcdca3ebc65a49b0dadc84dd1dbb5 SHA-256: b12725f83e7a05388df3e813ec4ea0bfea394451e3b968f4369072e63a73a2d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/gupaxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117db2a5bd7d---39376982898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c7f3c6f075f44631c448cb53c7d18b5/83488137187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalamiboside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrarental.org/upload/file/91435436772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/80359839891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727551c511f---pugexokemawaniduvizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcumaymoc.com/Images_upload/files/67394269075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/31398865578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/23270685391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shacklefordlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/960056376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/vimagani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/42833028409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f420538e0edf48f545c7bf928ebc02b/tekovuxafigudawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///pajitakojepadasefuvizajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fad523755---vinefoxukopuruxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/31999841658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fcc5c271c84c056f1947f84deb0de7d/veroveronaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210712220204181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613074b01091e---12498554435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/23785936423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98769ce8f3c757fe1d08ed65e037af6/14189320606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=sine+rule+formula+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://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_off0000ced1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCED1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E8 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 826c61142aeead9df314dacdbcf4764f8b782ef00efd196ba51646cc026de6d1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE3 19820 bytes
SHA-256: 93cad953ca1af02d5f2a4087b3c4694f0ed1829b7726c43cbaf87b73fcb443dd