Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 924f3a68899df9e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:37:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 95a20ceae86ea55a55da77cc2a4a28ad SHA-1: 9d74c6d7ead89275ef908f904f40e3cf525ec444 SHA-256: 924f3a68899df9e43aa1f8e2c7322b1beec1849c6bfe7e0df74444a4a2a213ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=interacciones+medicamentosas+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/263986879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad479c6b05---36996617154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caryhigh1987.com/clients/41333/File/12399101849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34beb01b80a6091d9978bb2577e8490e/dajodozabedivabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28667df6911ce487e64ad33656cb6fce/lijusutunuvokafavebuxexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/84757800776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/50547446559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/962236429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/11795955799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf887b07a56---sevexinikedazilowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/relewadunomufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa664c5595fd183fb63c22fd8616112d/xatizewenuxiwokasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/38961024222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/luxogisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/wunoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-25/20210525072354782964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutnia.pl/userfiles/file/97088427197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d30f8b3a9e---ladisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c537e7814c---47482626584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltio8jeqpbd7gao0mpeoif851b/pegexepuwevizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/lutiberugajusiwupapijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/78230225417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/sadeninotugukafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608272ae2f788---girilopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/nesofolusigi.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_off0000d13d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD13D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE954 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 3ba1e6d25b7ab42c6512b2b841fe411502492b0b4ec990dc57572cd142c06454
font_02_sfnt_off000101ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CE 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 720c3220b798e07820b0742b8651cc71f99e50aa646e1c21263aeecf506e6a15