Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8692448cec57ef51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:48:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3a91b19501d9cc8e1ee5c6b616d2a2f7 SHA-1: a6dc1d3a83ccbeb572b5d032e73fb0e301bb7c27 SHA-256: 8692448cec57ef5103240424907c8b87e0678c068d2cf6e7de2b0717fc4d939c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it is designed to exploit user interaction to navigate to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+your+eyesight+better PDF link annotation
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/lebedelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88386068d850df3409ea8cedcad8852e/76429972089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ceccad92ba---jerimijukawagazalajanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/jusopijakulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/63811049889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1621843940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83aad7b146---55698986721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607592bc53b68---9810054843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8db1775186---rijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85099130058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84a082457c---zedenokimuxekejexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/33676841990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/652a2bd73c281198725c84c1ed54c692/39489404045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcc4d0c5d1---64031520426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/vemazumabajufinogomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608502f07c144---46416319824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/61040550013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2703676987---bopovebawinosomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7780e21744---niraruwejanizimomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b91cb9a777---rifusipozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094da10b20b0---47540671179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/38686178725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/26206911061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/degapedaputugugoguxuxobe.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_off000103db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011bed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BED 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 87464dba8e0e12a4e7259af23df8875ec709f35acaa073458f8452a456e4f81c
font_02_sfnt_off00014852.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14852 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 58d00628121b3c80e17d976e85367e5e9f4508d79ca2e98a8f170894a36dfe93