Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68b92a7e518d8d4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-08-12 10:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1ec86e98dfe564e170c2c17456140042 SHA-1: b09e21e1e6af051ed8342ed10d51d82589258b3e SHA-256: 68b92a7e518d8d4d36cf1a5963d5ffa2642d41f20b351fcf0b1be0f96347b3f7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71858231987.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a005096461203fcde27aa93c74ad1e/46722086075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/54102013463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/navasuzapatubodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb62b89c65---kupipomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6sdkj13r02mk79punlnlss9ivq/62558313976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b453905e97---xawiwobaxokomuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1e20ea222---kexukuzezoduvufajixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/vozumofikifejowiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/20692668170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49cc9031763d774f9f0c983700d3978f/jipodokaruxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/susabenetogatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef0f8rcdiphheuh8rjiilrd0a5/98809322325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0decae2ed2d4c9ec27fe471179968044/nezobesaliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/zonen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/pebiburerisuxodefajij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/tadanediradadagojutagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/73666099144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a350e3dabe6---93857490804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/992e46a8fc0d0b4f97860ee7cd3f7a6b/nitupipebezunetej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uu7d5slca2re90tu600or5lft6/kirisarawulolibuvugixewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2630686970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d371f36a20---20110354378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609473d2dfa1f---mawirebufewojolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=denon+avr+591+manualPDF 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_off0001110b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1110B 10432 bytes
SHA-256: bd81416a8fd428d485fa84251f532e7c85fa011fb45fbf6d8325901bb6858134
font_01_sfnt_off000128cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CD 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 249307917a707e4d89a97aaf76e14476f2b925ebbebd47206b884f032502770a
font_02_sfnt_off00015599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15599 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1