Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d12daff750f19b9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 23:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f8ccba6db253012e8bcd026aa1636430 SHA-1: 7e04a316e12daa2cf8958720799f540a0f0776d8 SHA-256: d12daff750f19b9c891d7d19fde66f332fd2a5e8a5df88e7fe056b764f7a564b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting further indicates a malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b654ebba1b---pumalan.pdf
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80ec09c12c---nunamixifag.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaa79e18fdbcab2d58f5321a8962628b/turodelogaxo.pdf
    • http://viewcs.com/partner/upload/dextfile/zajutupajasamoropil.pdf
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/6662735848.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e30bc8778a---divifizisegajapuronipo.pdf
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/wikewukanodopipab.pdf
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b246e207439---jisebabimifelixevivag.pdf
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/92899472786.pdf
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b52afa06991---xusawigefudejijirobipo.pdf
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91206053627.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729d18b9234---reletimetugu.pdf
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/mivutabipejevadaf.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-26/20210626053601473831.pdf
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/23278736872.pdf
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakojutejaxamudinegi.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c9dcca9c6---47761872925.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0787a85c1---14004034313.pdf
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/nuvuboboseribat.pdf
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1n1r784il0qb7o6e787576bjau/latitem.pdf
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/65181146752.pdf
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/xezumeterewikotikijazozit.pdf
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/sebuvivoxizuzofupobafe.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799fffe7f8d---57340994955.pdf
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/28911770519.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=percy+jackson+sea+of+monsters+pdf+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d264.bin
4219e2a5a040ce05f18c4b7e85dadf71fd2c9d4e6d47638d31c980d0b257f8ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD264 28524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b3d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012354.bin
2e06ad6cc0dade43eaf097051b1053acd881f19bb56cd7200cfa8d3dbd90196a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12354 11112 bytes