Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c12000dbb86dc775…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 03:08:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b328fce4e713cccb6879872069214769 SHA-1: 44bb2e70372c6a99dcaee1eaa8c5400d341e82b5 SHA-256: c12000dbb86dc77530a58cd2c7443152d706359eaddcca97840dfa472618569a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=just+dark+enough+dishonored PDF link annotation
    • http://www.oneworldkarate.com/fckeditorimages/userfiles/file/sowudofisaponezekosaduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f218ccc4c---wisonipumafususaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f113f05f4---30059516522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atheaokk9gep6dv9ss6eo3deup/pexuboludivaxivajafuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/69933726152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7i08qf47ptpiavi0463pnq3fh/47538165203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/24867022934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k36dcfbbercj9js5hgfnf0s2hd/tezexidetutavosevimipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmr0ivg0porm5dg0vlcmqoouj0/lovokojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/nobabinatodokesuzibobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ce127f168---26314111667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/tupuvijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csss77.com/clients/d/df/df7f2fdc42e243c7a03c192a8228c0be/File/fokugikolenejulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbcd5ddea2---dudogetetujoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89541935573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbp3a8lt70o0ksqh7f4ndctglv/xalatupegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6acde7290d0f3783f6d94e5f0cff69c8/56094878587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa1a9949b2---78987120796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/44335800612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datixiginibixenedovel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3d3d8c2091---kusofepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c69dcc0e49---53153317859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/52466261359.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_off0000f02f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02F 17672 bytes
SHA-256: c8a8cea7caba897a2796a613f61f2d5c95c4dd586ae7d8bf4803f85e203c047c
font_01_sfnt_off00011d75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D75 10664 bytes
SHA-256: f068ac39170e7db5f9f28f22b6ee8510237303281651cd34342dce23355a9b1c
font_02_sfnt_off000135aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1