Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f12ec30dde95c7db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-06-21 14:41:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c8c52a7b221ba9e2a096f3a14f81858d SHA-1: 34f4158a3517683228d72b55578b52b6b1ba2c4c SHA-256: f12ec30dde95c7db893baa99a7eb8083a9ad21f2432a130eb4c6381c29f57c29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=misty+chord+melody+pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e19325f1d67efa6099b11b8f4309066/6459101020.pdf
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666g06ntd0lgkjhgqus2gg9ht3/3163754219.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e1f1959d58---50760199415.pdf
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile/%5C/2021051322002357.pdf
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da75214585---nonep.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c579cbb40---85433702119.pdf
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/xeriwiwojimidotodida.pdf
    • http://farashimirooz.com/files/mafoxagako.pdf
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ce4b420f61a9275db13d55c31d514a6/66321507472.pdf
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/56667354818.pdf
    • http://myboydfamily.com/clients/7/7f/7f513a2250c12de81a70a6735749c289/File/63478495264.pdf
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa8969d64147897cd1e2694dd8b3bc0/12342379556.pdf
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/28282045872.pdf
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/japukela.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd8f913c17---3406951870.pdf
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ba0a5ee7624b96ecd6725252c32b37f/vikolurixodomowezaw.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c155ace5a16---26093949126.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67847828b2389b640895b468a0cbb8b0/37345042353.pdf
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717105d75b9---93664342575.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3ae.bin
4fd93bdfc28d11b920f420590e1070e087bd62bddf5de7f2f363f7030cb2bfc9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3AE 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e59b.bin
9a327cd56be4d9d5cec0f208c4325fac80c237893450ea6a70ab713637c8ff66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE59B 10932 bytes