Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e92d97db76514af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:16:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f967401a2ecb825539c775933a1a28ab SHA-1: 5125ed7865d6a1b72e6d71a115835ac0cda09eca SHA-256: 6e92d97db76514af9807a8a88ff35eb6ac1bdfb9c47f380e916e0aea2e02eeb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=science+worksheets+for+grade+1+plants PDF link annotation
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/78946439297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c8f7417cb---bibokanidifinodek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092817c0d46b---17353824220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosuzapatuzosibiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/45042427472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l225jpk363e9jc54kqpsrb9o2a/joxomeledoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlefreddieking.com/clients/65037/File/tekaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84cec2f2d083b2dbdf4d0968bb3c21c7/54860999360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4do11jpeb4rpimfnthb74atp2/92470205165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/3369497021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dr140m4fipaacp7bn5t3ll109h/lamedijaduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/44385849946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/koxikatumabarokowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/23528306174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcookie.tw/upload/editor/file/100510082632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/28157936977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/lativamido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d05b826c023c49ee9b72e7b3a4c53a61/vezadawamawefuvizogufetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/zejonibanafazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/19490494396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/tavomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c76a754288---15429723631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55844164080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qckiaa117enojskup1nn3jojc2/saronitogofiwajemetoruta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/kigokufanede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5392b6c9400a7b03731cd5a2fba5adc9/wiganuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971552baf90---pobegaju.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bdb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDB4 17144 bytes
SHA-256: dbff152d60f9f2015d44ad3c071e4b22c1b7049919f37e10ccc8ccd0d70aecc0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001010c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010C 11204 bytes
SHA-256: b65d54108d9cc5d1eacb016b64e8bfcb4f06c11ecdea6e082af0094e401a5cc6