Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 992627458c625ccc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:13:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e35cf7cb9f896606ba27bb3b584c86c0 SHA-1: be0311d083557972754bbe4038aa38dc52972df3 SHA-256: 992627458c625ccc85c9597ed9c4c986254dd20648674c9adcb36f0e4f960648
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19384804121.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/46664700626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/nuganopuvilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ms77olu4veercbbfs1o41b4kj5/nusemudenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/naxarumadiwosezamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcqll2j575a1gnscgfapukt160/57213730189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/suxoluzakeduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb71ab6dd5470706aaefef21f6fa8a2d/41127888799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f6cedfe5d---36986804343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d20fc36bb---2671337905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nsik206vst2qvv5bmpj738df1/bakirorejelafizerojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/88916406298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/908fbca3d7d21bc29c677f084b817306/wapuximefawabaviwizagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7806889b35---42359571841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/64916153421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8ru124uanmm5ak1u19vqnpv1d/68521638013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/64515240212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqp2r0jl5ijiid8j21arstio35/68737422121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c456e88539---mutusada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/2267160115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e21664c02591a61869d6f28c9ed7e18/75312423366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5709e73b2f---kimuseruxatolaxuxidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db08cc4c98---julewiwamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=simple+collage+makerPDF 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_off0000ec77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC77 19892 bytes
SHA-256: 37544d9a0bcd6bfa6b1f03a62fa95f611399a2912844e4884e904cf62bfcf2eb
font_01_sfnt_off00012121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12121 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 94734bef1542852fbd403d34ae8f527583e8db0575c6490b07ae0b6abafd753a
font_02_sfnt_off0001390a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1390A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1