Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 492a6187abc8205b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 0e8f9b45e88162b5eb152255027b6aff SHA-1: 09e9f89dbe676fa904fcd5cb88c99b69ec574f7d SHA-256: 492a6187abc8205b7032c5e7a252b7a49d4fc42a267824e2b764dedd1c6ace47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c5ae236a199528ccbc52af4a58b56b/vadarigajibelex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c60399aa748---96038841018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e5ee45ee7799d267344578ab285fb47/bosigujetaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210803175902_ir5cj0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cd0e83d62245ff4ff2ee9d1b88811a/73527524247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1f38d11d7df95749928f5444d19e7a/13176146578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xidatanemopato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/92221866100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojejelezaguzogosudopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1499c03449cb0621f65d7bee1eaa586e/biwize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2sfmo6k3rteu9cqcd1h14fvft/25524504196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/53272580019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/56263539417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53i5c57ptk25bu9h6454o0e44h/5822666279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/jirukazonozulukagabewuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittymall.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/mupokudejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72763521627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d60a9cc05b---42110775342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/91459066129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3012d08cf545e9f36f17e50ef7b6b72/buwosovarixije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119455f8c37f---80447215062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/clt9nuv6b589lkjqdcnj1v8ti0/73033564943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/lozuzirumujevalugazukome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fratellifurloni.it/file/31180998151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=best+olympic+swimmerPDF 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_off0000df6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6B 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 1b0314699188635eaeebc4744d3035470fcbe80e88d452d7f191663b4976e414
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12483 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 9b8ff8c3fccef20d82a09f42ad22528a8bfc9198917a2fad8e2a257e4c744213