Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92334486714b7f61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-11 19:27:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d75f53ffa63af96c0ee73debf836d7b8 SHA-1: cd9cea6af33548ccc17ecd3f4f18b14e8ea16f03 SHA-256: 92334486714b7f61b6ff309888cfe19b1930ebcba7c0f839ca0d39d6ffbae042
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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=10th+grade+math+worksheets+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1e6bbd8ed---7497744411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be1f4a984887c5cef8790e1dd7586eb9/fetuzixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4038ac696---rivulofamovetevoxamake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081241196e02---jirazokodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/789918893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759fe41c07f---54499600429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6245c974a0e643208aa0cffe829c43bf/10962891763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ioda5utnc8rse7kl06gtgn47hk/silekobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/33384669521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/013fa8c11199a0d32a7c3c30fa2f33b6/10704674036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cc00ba4df---29493941815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/82024345980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546f658f2d66c017e8fb10579ed114df/71339004842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gu61qtrrhq72q4l7g0j5s8dbc0/zutifipefesoparavepuzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC3E 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 8dc97538247d5e1669c96168be55b16bc42c35881e078406c2d429062f49b3e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB7 2536 bytes
SHA-256: 43d3dc35fac3cbb87bee9e3a39c9b3c65790059e51ddf3400f165f04894b88c5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF998 11308 bytes
SHA-256: baf81ed4f99e60623b2de445eb58ac370ff1bd8a745501e6bab78f5df373850d