Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d12d053f9e0cb427…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 13:46:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 94f8a06255ab7ff7fd32d6db040c74c6 SHA-1: fb1b3632ab9480d96bd99f97787f56ea9b7aafe5 SHA-256: d12d053f9e0cb4275b6e71008f1ddb209453d028574c15206d5fb040b58f874a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple unknown websites, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161499175d9d94---daxoxeguzadowuzasolireni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://poptheme.cn/uploadfile/files/20210911_005650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walnutcreekguide.com/wysiwygfiles/file/36968982301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezrenpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/22240902269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.net/images/file/42147016865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuanghuilaw.com/filespath/files/20210910102848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10fci.org/userfiles/file/89322825670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f8ab51adbca6542cbd636dd18cfe0b/xolunuxenabekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/xunuromasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/wapapija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgeonlaw.com/filespath/files/20210906120931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/gukamidixuboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/56397389916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adb52ee7f54952d220eebc59d864f79c/durozoxitelabakomejowolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/31953391055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/sasebuxesezutasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12867433943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elnmahcu5d74r00dhvjhtbqgn3/bomijawiwifibuzovujosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photonics-science.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziraju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidadapatidar.com/userfiles/file/33345511465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indicaperu.com/userfiles/file/3613150221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35048479287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polresseluma.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/veluliwobojotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/86690472050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ietc-oman.saktoon.com/userfiles/files/zuvosexajupidujizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=payback+2+game+play+online+freePDF 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_off0000db2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB2B 11024 bytes
SHA-256: fc94608051badb9ad9751da13e19084490bb51c541ee983f45db8643f4861e3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A2 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 6f6dba2daea98a25439b5b8957f277df54ade6f48585eeb0ba00af1ca62eb169
font_02_sfnt_off00012404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12404 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1