Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d12a253b87c7aba2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 16:51:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a096bec6b7bcacf935125345b75f1d14 SHA-1: 3e7020b220db4b08fa531b4aca6f2a7b22751954 SHA-256: d12a253b87c7aba294975ce25270ea5207d4b3c324ca0189afd7dbae6d8b5539
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. These links are likely intended to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://5mal4.de/moneyvidya/web/images/userfiles/file/59136043927.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://0955205219.jwa.tw/userfiles/files/jofoluxesajulanasutenolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145137dd94fc---muraveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7qfv98cc526rbcnebcj2lf394/2189598549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamboomfi.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/rageribubabefafesixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/sutizibagunufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/82619168768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needletherapy.eu/upload/file/gakujanemuvapedotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhanvietgroup.com/demo/xay-dung-tnx/upload/files/negatitedawerupefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciturystyczne.eu/files/file/59118233653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/diwafedorovefisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9g1sug1hvtv39kkj3tum09rs5/20257261352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd711241a448029a9efa2b3dc2497b7d/vuzekiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stoneappeal.in/FCKeditor/file/duduwewewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kottayammedicalcollege.org/CMS/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9105895917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/bijomeragewavusekejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a9188.com/upload_files/art_files/files/20210904_075357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/83962639563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5p333f16u2u7ok9d6t5t1llh4/25120186330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139445b835df---20322669770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/44096693230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaders-adv.net/userfiles/file/20654179075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rabatefemufemojidikakuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=pets+tucker+gepps+crossPDF 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_off0000beb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CF 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 0f774a6a5f328a42306ce429ed9676e97fcd8dd3301348e5ea97fb786df1a6e5
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5C 15848 bytes
SHA-256: 8d4e1e466c85923329163be9bb3ebe3b9d1b0aa538d79b615821dbf13c9d3d0a