Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e12cc376461a874c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-10-03 06:50:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c676096bab6e7a1bf50ca9e94f21e367 SHA-1: ac9d4956deb9d8dc0227815758d3bda1c9cbd50a SHA-256: e12cc376461a874c1c290ef1b800e95eaf40feb85df00f7bbde451210e53836d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using such PDFs to create a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to host phishing content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=end+of+mayan+civilization
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/09/file/202109141915432047.pdf
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents/files/76560650558.pdf
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/sidanomuz.pdf
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/ragudazevu.pdf
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemofubiruvu.pdf
    • http://hong-tour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_6AC06B3C2C693590.pdf
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ff76fef02a---molonirelotasa.pdf
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/xovagizupenefetoja.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348f18cb8d9---tubanudafifavilimen.pdf
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/zarux.pdf
    • https://holcom-wd.com/webroot/img/files/xaneweg.pdf
    • http://cmorshomecareassociates.org/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/35354040679.pdf
    • http://minipit.com/data/files/lulaluweruwonuzesetowiwaf.pdf
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/xipugebakepoluwegipodix.pdf
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1kd25rv442uabvn78nbtbldp2/puzofojofijipuzafuges.pdf
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/09/17/file/20210917_080903_152.pdf
    • https://aramlasmerok.hu/uploads/file/39235292729.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ec3b151113870319d6edf3ba9a79b8/30593785860.pdf
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jitenabavafaraxorem.pdf
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/duwevinagol.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a81b4da532---papuvitifilufigolif.pdf
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09b45f4f176fb1369ba9782ec525ad47/43003231246.pdf
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/16428859533.pdf
    • 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_off0000b249.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB249 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca60.bin
ad2805f11b8266a223a68e82802e98e57230e88d840c6263c8c9040df62e172c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA60 10460 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e220.bin
297249cd6c8c76e31c7e12ac6d2cc21524520a5f652d133a99ee9b6c63264127
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE220 14824 bytes