Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d92fd1152734ce05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 17:58:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a88563bfb0b9629d421e69330114b333 SHA-1: b53a273258c556c2f1d8918644469f20d22d61b2 SHA-256: d92fd1152734ce0590b3151882a66cd3807e06fb91f1ceceb8347937c4542338
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage 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 0.9942

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=to+walk+down PDF link annotation
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/xukonemuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bknfrqfotq7obdl3rurqbndkgc/77386168912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/zolarulujavisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afca18cd216---velazuzixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccd7999092f---zatemapemilitedupimeris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/61676818664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/sapulavafolafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b290a8f454a19c1e57b79aa9e54c529b/weraronep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lh0m19i6v2ujh57ld0m6r98sdo/98181117917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fd32a4c48d86613fa2790ca7b42da61/87700121461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf135e333c---ferubevugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83c7f9507ac6f17228d7d9f75dd146c8/68339385352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5653359c1516b9f621b24bf5fa059518/gufugosatobifenerabifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d41eae87afc6b3cc4874978d1f865611/foxesorofeperubinamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/64777606244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070550f3e370---26639958174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2rpgab3gu8kph66bku2p0e3c5/49852120361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/zilexesitanixakodupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/banofovaravoguralevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/werajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternatifmedikal.com/img/userfiles/files/18682650078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/12268828500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5cdb7a229988c7d90c2da78ed4dc35b/99080381411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robinsonsmithreunion.com/clients/879094/File/18205077886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0fcdc80f2---wapozezaxalakiwaxexapide.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF6 9792 bytes
SHA-256: d4baa79f55997076a5e7952cf9a2ba73ef6e8a2f2d93b6211d42a6b4d676d5c0
font_01_sfnt_off00010585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10585 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 3a606c5e67e2a77e06b288f4c66a7f93f47694fa72c23d7884945c706b9975e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001309d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1309D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1