Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d92bb601fb6296e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-08 01:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f19eb34c32a04fae1c21872263a22cfe SHA-1: 58ee7e522b099abfca9c85ae2e676a938445cec1 SHA-256: d92bb601fb6296e5810eada85035c1186c5a0be1229212471b6df5ea5406abad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic suggest it may exploit PDF vulnerabilities or serve as a lure for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/wetamexewoboxal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/86944793888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcicu5l5flfskdlg29moeti5mi/13572124503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/12071378287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2c4d02601---zudimagejifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/fuzotosuvusekebibibuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremania.net/img_pagine/file/matew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9562d059d9---55486018264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/46630321603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olivier-frey.ch/user/web/file/kekaronekajipasuroza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/pisifurogisawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/10427367078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab2c42d41f---zixivijumadevemujofodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enfersalus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42959870510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://info56.ru/userfiles/file/37926947262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be9544c310a---wotugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bungefamily.com/clients/5233/File/40036878202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/68214913767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/23833097905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af733a66cec---78227777990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210701204438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a441fa09d40---6490668149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cpp6jjm5e32tglldrul6flq5f0/zavikegajaferunavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/78261566115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/96767264541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobmedia.hu/include/rarebuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+is+43+inches+lg+tvPDF 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_off0000ed91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A8 10908 bytes
SHA-256: fd3cec798b5e0636385d18133ed08b3ee67e6f50f25681b67528c6eadb2a3e78
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED8 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 393d4ccf9461033052973c53c586eb161b9dcbfc4caba73a32d2cc16c69e81bc