Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d12aaeb4334d3b97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 18:09:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d6668ca2a7a4f9feb876d80d38abf310 SHA-1: 86fd84da308fcb70c3892de74b59837df53a6ad0 SHA-256: d12aaeb4334d3b974f9d915a9612a57942cc7d265e9518c98d3b89ad8ac05d88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve to distribute further malicious content or phish for user credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a894bc0855f---5152251405.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85050855226b9e20d2cb8ae19a348581/11879121634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/wigawufoxaxizupigamexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/64044557120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/nibabuwamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iprr3l4a2k232nkn3fnl70kch1/83170413576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a69179abd---43783453464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c464dfe6---935405555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///37250542633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a974ec62f05---sakibozawulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/vexipewususelovelozelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8a143b239---lojarezitigir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3093866340737212063a956858f92908/xadifopowisovopukiganow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/xaxofimiworalewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessahighschool1970.com/clients/7/70/70263b1be1b93b62200e198143f59f20/File/jifiruvedolaveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/66813393392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/pokakiforuvuripopexomijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/visux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serini-cloud.pl/uploads/editor/file/17787607532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/luzesikimulumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/63994548137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7314tsk4egmdi9fcgi8jmuopk9/jejabukikakibunidaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/28717609014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c40a8bbb4---37718878047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6f94bfc1f---37974400083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ios+hipstore+mobi+hipstore+100+free+apps+for+ios+and+androidPDF 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_off0000e86e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10085 10980 bytes
SHA-256: dad35fd01007afb12b3ad95ae09f97e01be85180b2f2ad198f63f39f99e65878
font_02_sfnt_off000119a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A5 17576 bytes
SHA-256: acbd877dd8fb2882c690d9440876b9a8fc254dea7165e0304971eec5027cbc63