Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f12bd0612331b8d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 11:10:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8e67111f36d1c7a3272f933e445f78ee SHA-1: 77128e12d1d86598a6c1182fd47d0f86429a9fa9 SHA-256: f12bd0612331b8d72a48e1283f17125928d53e8084fa1de2baf5434e8b9209a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to external, potentially malicious, sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://uralcomservis.ru/crn_fls/crn_files/95937657301.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c09e705525e7964d1c0ee4a4f244da7/24839263606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsedupatti.com/sbsedupatti/userfiles/file/guradajikokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/zixewido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/mozofujezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystar.net/filespath/files/20210910142258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faisaltowel.com/survey/userfiles/files/34041903872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maulich.vn/attachment/files/36208729592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/83953739886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5542a96ce231b411b975bc5db6ae12/18358159784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yam-token.com/business_school/uploads/file/77279240456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9862cb3e944da7fcacad01984dcc03e/linumavibuwotebapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/69601018691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/userfiles/file/wojerakadotakunamenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/regibazugabovezaridoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/71722615610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354c2a1eac8---72852535014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents/files/17938096611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/wabipilaxizaxikadukomegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363e5ce8cb9---wixovijebabatobutesevuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c13ed5a03---97263012084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613716d50dad3---39783292615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenways.at/userfiles/file/podaxuxofivaxiwedunobedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/19648373514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/rorebubegijojifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=trail+boss+bmx+apkPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e738.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE738 16164 bytes
SHA-256: a0f26d9ec2bc0bbc84dfb8c1a224a49f7f70479ac92e21d726acd811d43f3bd1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD9 21384 bytes
SHA-256: c499eeab2a5c4b903bd8bd2c6b968527cd4a1d8827a7b837e30026a892512c87
font_03_sfnt_off00013294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13294 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 7f35efd89ebde3c0a995e237c2c9a3842a867767894a0fbaae4314319e371a93