Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b492d93d52e0a55e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-30 07:45:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 717c1d642adaab1f86746242cc458a77 SHA-1: d0186db2428a21c16514e69d2b9d35f1fbfa421c SHA-256: b492d93d52e0a55e95fe4bd92001c99c9867ef4887666df337b0c7561dacd801
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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 http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/50969922700.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20135831211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749805d13cf---94838618278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0af68a099---gavotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1970.org/clients/872719/File/lumiwinadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/47864582221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d961dcbe1c---78947252622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/951bd4070372c88668320be7c9db527c/ripigukoxebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/314aed2726044af5d52ab89c3b07494c/74006858398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fb60b8cb7---vawefewulobovipitiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea27d52bb83fd3dfa53ce84e6ac31a55/kexigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/kurom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/9204084318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816b6b204ba---vajumozexijujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovemynewstemcells.com/clients/865932/File/sobetojebugibikavaketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20lf1hsfm1f56mcnnniqrn56v/menudubovowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/rukilusoburuvatidiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4a99c7149---18374538326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/97177300668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/58327584322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3fc60122d---53922009809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gudifoxadulimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095a8cc22c07---49417301927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/12114741112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bd57232ad---85318182300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/65654294458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=rollercoaster+tycoon+world+license+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_off0000fd96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000115ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115AD 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 1f42ed9d95a8f4d705893ec70dfd63eb05224e0f202cf39ed27df325b15add84
font_02_sfnt_off00012e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6E 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 141ea692e718073cd690210373b481025dbc89955108f298427ac6773eb20de7