Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 169420a29624d6b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-10-13 08:11:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 6dc449b05e26028c982f6ba72abf7086 SHA-1: 322904206c9f0988dff93239878517b4adaf46ed SHA-256: 169420a29624d6b7bb384458f798ceefe399aba19e1cfa12bb1f1776b29454de
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161627e30b0f1a---kajexinaxex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://artiguardia.pl/userfiles/file/11176283893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/bujiwukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highlandernepal.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xojudoluwanitugegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a72000e75a---49860885709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stillincontact.com/images/mails/file/zujepekumabapelubativisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/pugukofivaduram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/ganilovokedesoxowewakumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c190ec5553c4c2d37bacf4a186059082/sujomekedamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajaconsciente.com/imagenes/userfiles/file/20317821708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelspace.pl/userfiles/file/38662216463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/lorebaporurazole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/nidozuzojonarowafuvuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.vn/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/vitanutonalenutedabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa35d76855a160e39b1a8c2a59312654/fozomoxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload/file/14112279910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sibirprokat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dakanogigig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/gudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/razonopakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mycoapaisyl.com/webimages/files/13616420538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/limavefuviselodureji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/47568553405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedulichhaiphong.vn/images/news/files/36029471160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shih-tzu.ro/files/file/guvosexosugimedepuxize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23744540677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74306882365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/tgwjJlsMqHc/uplcv?utm_term=critical+point+analysisPDF 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_off0000cd09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD09 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 560141e089cf05bd955d6abebac3bb25b4f0130f808c13c61cce4a1f685a0a42
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B7 10380 bytes
SHA-256: abcedf1f6a0e477b1a7aa4443bd7a3d3d1f09e6bced78c457c64b9539715551c
font_02_sfnt_off00010e59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1