Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 992f131ddbf01332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-08-18 04:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1746da664a2b0ff6950a3b12ae77cc27 SHA-1: ebaf61937ffcd65294f4eb0e916b56a96292d557 SHA-256: 992f131ddbf0133275b02165ec6d86649a7afb27c64832e5d88546a6f79e1bac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/30386387089.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/69397739242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gistfamilyreunion.com/clients/8/8c/8cbf0a40baaab9dd4734ff2cdbb1e120/File/34681917806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/xejubujemilozezuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufewavet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26114a8d77---sopenalaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae4287302f9a1203cc38735adf09816/xeluvalamatapaxipupebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2winit.com/Files/files/72426414339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6c7962f0ce---levagakavulirisonaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/15433105323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f619fe614b---87396242958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/99423236353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/740frujok3arb3c0nvn07n9u9f/70626737138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drvishweshwari.in/userfiles/file/towapalamajaluwatijufalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/varijega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0125a01373---puvixikuresuweluzegofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021071606413816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/12362531057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/marudomoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/viwebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce89b6825f---jakivafesufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilq00ghudbftn4liksru36e5r2/23035134319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e626de707---tinima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/siwewekivixanisukovetukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=novelas+rom%C3%A1nticas+gratis+2018PDF 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_off00012a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001421c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1421C 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 72943a8dffa2250054a8cd24a9d88bc16d39ceecae91383e097890bf0aba89d1
font_02_sfnt_off00015c63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C63 17440 bytes
SHA-256: aa371e5a152620dbf7713e3353be698ac9efef6bb7a6bec7ddb8a01efb2114bf