Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e12f995ee9df2b5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:03:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b5f63f43597e4f7c0f6cc63ca1514656 SHA-1: dd70b70c06e3d40fd482be4979e13364a31e1274 SHA-256: e12f995ee9df2b5c2c03f26adde67ff13e890d53570a263b1db9130bcc888a13
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with high confidence. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bfb17c6c2---5609047052.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78be5fa3c09c22400e55118df286f25/nalawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozhencherrymtc.org/userfiles/file/51599196431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084abf21d70b---tabive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49343742688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-p-n.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/29326510037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bc773e923---91795052479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/25320015350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1abd15004efebca8de6174afcf96cb1e/60568261939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beba8788021---87399628228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/82011278336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fc9518eba---79650032685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garage-fuji.jp/js/upload/files/69328260726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083960b3e885---78081537306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/mazexikurujunikelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio2.com/contents//files/35121099276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/rifademepoveliwifaxobiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietmoiquangle.com/webroot/img/files/4538760358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/jagizinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findusafranchise.com/files/files/mebedinegilududuwalig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/22081064470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/milisusigimopagufumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=bloated+and+feel+like+throwing+upPDF 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_off0000eba6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA6 18532 bytes
SHA-256: ff23a21c15afc1ef6c6f6b1a76e999c807d5d9f94049d43445d9d376cb2b3144
font_01_sfnt_off00011bdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDC 10940 bytes
SHA-256: d280d6ec2fe7466dda123f6263f17dfcd1e84ddc04e8e803d81a93f3eb0eca21
font_02_sfnt_off00013505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13505 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1