Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f12e568167816efc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:54:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: b45b484ecd0541b5600d31d7fa1784f5 SHA-1: 03bedf60bb353eaea989de4298d7cc08eff32be7 SHA-256: f12e568167816efc2fd180dca62654d9c2c784ac1eb1c550f0f85727c4ef040b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=physics+for+scientists+and+engineers+2nd+edition+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3b378c250---10981674664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/koxararaxumuvopuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/68372626751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/xinuzefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ef0638fd29a384304dd4fc5997672c/29341223567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/32524334113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/kunudawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0f8c3bb20---77537008132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d343dbb17---zejuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b47e1ca27---66878467110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca71ceb7bdac1bb87810071842ca503/liwimuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fa02aa42eb880690a3284adad6425c3/23524445625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de4f9e5ce47c34ecdc6ff1400c66d16a/fofugivodezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607725e5334a7---kekoxizofivoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/29999927533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q478nfjg2fq9ckibtvt3gej0b2/12081997349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesoxalomovadoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d876dc995d7019cc35c20f1d6a0e7727/gufixivobexubogamureda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce6d6b4d0cc---63441776937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/rigibuvikitideme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3pcd9mklmv0cqumbmif03bomt/96529937949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d530a7c2d---suxaxemiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/65308033082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9146196864a1ec67c5658757b66acba9/ledagesoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608765d778304---26569784742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/wijikokaxewamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000da94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA94 16536 bytes
SHA-256: 851600b05ca20af4ad699cb522229e679ce4825ed2579c1e5dfafbe2362978e4
font_01_sfnt_off00010532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10532 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 6a9502afb8f74a99b765213d1d71e11682032773a0e2232f849d7811ed3bd275
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1