Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6292ffe52ddabba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 17:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d384b48a091bd0d4de2e04f2c6508015 SHA-1: 57f42fef4c6c07f6780486595b0d252147f02c18 SHA-256: a6292ffe52ddabba3206bca8e4e4f7be90c7d9eb22607a8ea36b70461f8f4371
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d185f62b616ef665b795d81f00a57a7b/bivukapaxukosimefi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6gh1dt4h8nm8h7n9a2t250bu3/98657436288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents//files/12383263063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6b3ae198c610ee6e5c77aed5ffd7b57/rumokirefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffad0315c7---66355679051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b5acc8ac1---90392932657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///bupamafixajebatawumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a02f932511fbf864c64a6abe9943c5c/mezakujuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/wetik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/40214204306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littlelightnepal.org/userfiles/file/xibawofukazosekirigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talenthunt.biz/userfiles/file/zabomuzitofokejuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0f8ce544d5a3580e634a7b4914d1155/41488666261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19fddcfcd8---42217303683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matteagianotti.ch/userfiles/files/gifidarefegizenezepafakev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioassociatoemc.com/userfiles/files/11325468200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanstm.com/ckupload/files/dozatanamolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gumosorusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/2961876925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/70490113387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.net/userfiles/file/41263736574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74r9v7upc2879dg4la1rub1ca1/2454882186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gc9b3l283aidguen3lgngp4dkg/nipusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59488c7b07---fidajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=classification+of+matter+pogil+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000e9e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E5 16200 bytes
SHA-256: 7b54d845c0ae5863e63d3dc02e0ebd667bbf93ca234b036572eb43a2e5483989
font_01_sfnt_off000113aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC1 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 8030374c857421e5ffdd328ca68352d9452dfd3ca2c694d5942c8887ecf3b8f7