Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 692b8d52772cb427…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:46:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 54f34c35d7d83ed952b657658a6594e8 SHA-1: 784c9f5da4766607feba654f07da369a024f0be8 SHA-256: 692b8d52772cb4270b8bca1d3499e79a92b0ad3690ea2e36ce65389698201e0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting. Multiple URLs point to PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious intent, likely leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ae07627a2ee3a0ab924d9b41e782b1/25604660986.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd2303790c7---wamikisozuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/42706969518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3elf2uafsq3k35ll95hf7v3fj/10153651570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76bbebad4f893c3a095c268f428aa042/83637861925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/885fc45d115df067811070ee316e7fc1/bafukitarukujipudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c053548e084d2dbb022d5f0c61f38508/97959892313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c65269472---vasemadifuparinomowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josquin-capella.de/download/49879033176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779b2332c19---37934205750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653c78ade2d1fd351f366f925224d266/41325693022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pingthye.com/userfiles/files/vomilajitigufigemubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/gudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciturystyczne.eu/files/file/biwogetopupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b460230febe---33204040445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbad9bc79cb03ae17abbb6b6dd7bf654/rupazosigagogamarerefeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/naxebotovojowaliwavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b4e876f24a75043a5ec3613bc7ef25d/18430394114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/58489710209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/98757713615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/78472448918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayihoki99.com/contents/files/36435190410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210726185309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameralehiep.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/jojozijeretilovudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cup+of+tea+story+pdfPDF 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_off0000c381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC381 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 383d083c0f95314a041cc23a9a9c1f1760fcca9523ee712333902946127c6908
font_01_sfnt_off0000db95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB95 16752 bytes
SHA-256: 7e1c9bdf8dc2e697dc96934334000fe7bafcebc6bc601dc4e58a1ed379605232
font_02_sfnt_off000106b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1