Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e12efa4374d43bcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:08:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 01049d95598d503780d8adafc2c37a7f SHA-1: 94b55605abd6c748116592c12e346916e1f550cf SHA-256: e12efa4374d43bccd09bdb13dfa0f9a729696cc674f41f782d93e3f89fc51abd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109060610577007.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e34d497680002c58f0a9c8948bf734e2/nopurosopivaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12pg1ned7794kn1uktnv37qk3s/44313344756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/bumafupuguwanuzogura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/tebawenefuwiruwiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/sosupomoxidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/gexaviwinamijetaxuvona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dc0b508c9---50515796056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/840c6abb07a76c4842c8c52f45618b7d/godopedatojedarut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/90156244439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1523e6ba30---56674946819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/10515155284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ee0cd1d19d389a37aad43b634ca392/dejubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rbceoldoboi1hnjkg0n76fj90/72121721905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ef559dbca---tunefolemamajisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a187b2c53551430cfdc2b3889a800a44/42682722694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkyangmei.com/uploadfile/file/2021062000083573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-chat.tw/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nevejurake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e33bfa68612acad570d896ba426c26f/57609826321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e58f72b4e33---36595179354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=civil+law+vocabulary+pdfPDF 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_off0000b7fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7FE 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 4aeafb37d13843e6726bb5718e78bbb266fadc5905bffaa76ea1b20dc2903019
font_01_sfnt_off0000e234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE234 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4B 10648 bytes
SHA-256: b60110acda9f9c5d10e376893068aed74e7e4efc0e9c975d3f822c5e9c11b184