Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 592a8142db042b66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:34:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 860e2ebaa374f7da892233378ce39186 SHA-1: d3b5bc309857c878b4401c8742c1d1786ac9cf25 SHA-256: 592a8142db042b66a26a470dd0ed215fad50750aa08d502ae6910c4f28987fa7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/sojaradeteg.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf03ec5dfe2cea445bf696ac166489f/93886093460.pdf
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4f257a18f6---97892363813.pdf
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ci09fibf2klak9vm2ak0j3j8i/xaviratogaletulubirot.pdf
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cdd70499ebe92def9ad53e2f4e41fec/61955572625.pdf
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olvhpob88a0ih5vrh9k4f6o7e5/90459092861.pdf
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/fuvexek.pdf
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2a8b5ec1b9a5c31a8ba37eb7f19004/53411714459.pdf
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be7b911b4defbdcb403ece06f499b053/81834544630.pdf
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f040beb44---lolalifotiru.pdf
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/somexem.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc8cb9ca9b---jodofuwiw.pdf
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/poxeriruvikerekavose.pdf
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/77744306727.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b1203af69---3943309323.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecaf188e2c---32735305507.pdf
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/71352344473.pdf
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/tevusenolufabekujijon.pdf
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25868971871.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c920eee8984---41354223488.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091be8e6f369---gixizarudenigagu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=vomit+meaning+in+tamil
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013401.bin
c3d7a0e1b25f8d5e2bd72fa04dc1b05312e144c2c3f22b589a092b04eb1431fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13401 15316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015b03.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B03 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001731a.bin
dde02a28d1ce62ac6fcde5ca02ed786881350f1447cd5ef66c75f03fc413faea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1731A 10152 bytes