Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 992e620217789d89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 19:18:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 066e06f918bfd116a766ea5dcf395e81 SHA-1: e7c07d9ffec0d18e86f985f62be2835ee5cc87eb SHA-256: 992e620217789d89b89b74fd5c714cf8e962d0343f5e1f220ec023c2c059d24f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989252309b9---10840571232.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eb86564f773b70891eccca70e18d4c5/16318644161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/xonozosijopiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a757cfc4e---39871709706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/50301060455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a71d10f7b---sisilosofodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/tafuxaraduguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p467r8l8gk8bbjvpe4hulsms3/24504371349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/51285679631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c84c30851e---58524732588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/ginupenadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce2a2d95672---77216717190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/76246630532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ei5q7n4rv0i10cg3uhq7bem8qg/62723354580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89a7b942ab---23799605512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070406861f3c---22702338567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/rimirisuduveremeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/xoxoxopubiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f5d352afa---pifukixejabinosoxoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc2533e34a7e1945420e097eef6cd1a6/wefuzodovuvixezepine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf43d4f321f52fc6c774685b728e0b9/jigelokeniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents//files/21342810965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4958voh09ud3q4o0i08dlbv8q/dopinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirheiraten.de/images/file/ronubokopobeferosama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+correctly+write+to+whom+it+may+concernPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64fb5c3be028d9a8090a319d321760ad/nalebofigolamab.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f69d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69D 18140 bytes
SHA-256: a7fe7ce606d46a89d611257aa46d01eed63748e4663d9b400ef9a5fed41796ec
font_01_sfnt_off00012638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12638 16656 bytes
SHA-256: 9a4c4fa6c455b2ea6373a10f3385cdb61dad3a8456ed85e64c8952b0c91a1b86
font_02_sfnt_off00013d10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15527 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 5aa0472301e46bfeab4dc6b28fadc270d55d3026922b20302758ccf1e25228fb