Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 655692d471fe5607…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 03:29:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0fe4a20bb07914b14c8bebf573dd25ab SHA-1: f6ffd0613d2a4869e2ae52b85466fe65e264f2c8 SHA-256: 655692d471fe560758da5b76bc7ee95f9a7c6db9946f72584464cff37a759884
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating phishing and trojan activity. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely serve as redirects to malicious destinations, a common tactic for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+sect+of+the+phoenix PDF link annotation
    • http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/matixufadoromeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/22068612298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/baresipaganabetarikagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bs6iaf305f06icavesb4hcvlt4/55363408480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d591d4908---wijukufuwuxegonamosekum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a265f75ca62---kiral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unesco-mediain.cz/fckfiles/file/81155716307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aee724f5de---43079717531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52e8772fa4---95641760736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcbc39bbce---44712099263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/lupojiligepisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bitipadizigimugimuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772d137fc86---tewawoxupujefotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ac077d53c45666be26a1b64136267da/vewaneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d285d92491549f94376b07708338b45/7481623480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/85269349226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/738d757460eeb7f3891855990ae8a736/xotegoxiresejuledopuxina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/71749048434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/ranadodiluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartmedia.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dezodononewomeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02379195e2fb390dd3f233701f302296/36588922185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b2cc454b8---pitujevijixerolorebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents//files/33658557652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/25318849711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgbprk4qgnhjgn42ajrk6t4te6/falig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A5 10336 bytes
SHA-256: b289cc59382e69d2e9ffea8751648df596fd58788bb35a6f4fed96e6b3dc9d72
font_01_sfnt_off00010cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12501 2348 bytes
SHA-256: 28cbd6bd17f58be8fb3af8d13408a9da37772826e7193484dbeed3ce44c07126
font_03_sfnt_off00012f01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F01 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 177167afe62c8dfed3081ba4a4750cce701e3c2222620a5cea2bffa3489ea74a