Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 392eac8e8d4f5351…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:02:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d7b5663007d3417acc48077abb2efe80 SHA-1: 9ff0735c2756ac63eb91053ad94345917bf8126c SHA-256: 392eac8e8d4f5351040d08b890ea33c845ede32a8e8bc427b0a473267a6a34c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it is designed to lead users to a malicious payload, potentially exploiting a PDF vulnerability or delivering a phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://kildevangen.dk/files/fekizaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0302913cff75c223749ec18d2a103367/51655330487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe1a7ee7b2---fadanodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b423d85ea99---rufafobemewujutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210627093709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/15746537237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/6552464340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/xonina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d616d4d669---75062224298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e41d5e3edfb3d17c4b1f664d0b69155c/84426424565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba3c246384733f6ab908709728b4787d/30718174669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/daxeximosutamitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shs1977reunion.com/clients/41590/File/jafugukakufiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mm5bb34rq5moovurpt6tn9j92/97772417346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e0d129dec82e76351fead76253f823/10519409811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/44426049416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/nunofigoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/44363100431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d309522ca924bba5a0603c77e16bdd5/13364590579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddeb67a6e52---63864659256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46226a3a902adc0560dc5d953ea76e9e/5449811777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd50925eba---9046101562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10f1138777260b686520b6d12baeb95e/nopebikozalila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc59b109379---9575709831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/35984580398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29cf8a9c4f6c244f17cd815518d5f6b2/92515359777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sequence+of+cards+in+3+pattiPDF 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_off0000e91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91F 16608 bytes
SHA-256: c3701d0153d7b90083c198895936628260d00bb1467543bb4034c066aa0050c8
font_01_sfnt_off0001140c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C23 11060 bytes
SHA-256: f144d5dfb9cf68def4e4002ec74c6fb77b7ef5046290cbdc81dc6bed028d5a9a