Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e12dea7cd010aebf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:34:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 803999a5db9175fc5dc454280d999b66 SHA-1: 70069f893a75b771c2b5bb29fe4b2c98e33d6dc9 SHA-256: e12dea7cd010aebfda15bad3b8963317f89be52559623852c28bee79e9a0445f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and external links. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The presence of embedded JavaScript (T1059.007) strongly indicates an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ea415d62e---94809446489.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/guposekasilire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gunjanjain.com/app/webroot/js/uploads/files/zumubux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/27148740086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/19545346490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091289f42fc8---86215146345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabienneblavier.be/upload/files/wajukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/zidoxemir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog/file/nizixerukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/90205058451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad07996cf8---luzozejazazasemisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9864148294---91035125487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b7afcf74eb2f2a7d2b0215c6c096839/27180310866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082faee2aa92---88694204678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aspbae.org/userfiles/file/65306374537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210813_6295F0FF7DCCF45A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bona-agra.pl/Upload/file/notuwefukaperopagaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990c91beeca---wugubelusitabigilepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/watujazakajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117a93272543---60107256488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=2001+by+the+center+for+applied+research+in+education+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000d9be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9BE 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 56d3c5572ffab128050fe32bfa8caf6514309afe7cd7de8712523cdba9908b34
font_01_sfnt_off0001064d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1064D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E64 11448 bytes
SHA-256: e6652c828d1584adcd3721ce3c35bb853613fd63dff5ef1d6bf589876aa9edb3