Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e932c28fdda70e87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 15:58:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8b9c845901d78374ec9810296da3d6f4 SHA-1: a27a2b097840ab8761c46dc667a9b351782dedf6 SHA-256: e932c28fdda70e87695db883aa33672f4d3473872d888e14722d301fb322675b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other disposable hosting domains. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+flies+kill+you PDF link annotation
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/rakabokedenasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05145e5443---jogelixakafuniwumerom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59a54efb33---36620324807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ea0db01d249896706cea19dd34f3182/89587314459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/bonitoxapusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5febf35b9---pufoxefaluxizapatonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ba9eef85c---xamogevupuvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96253083101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/67061758866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncabhsa.com/clients/875427/File/76970691651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091acdc15609---jejaripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87939f38e338de64a9c77ec12d182f1b/71147030154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/xowofufazopeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/xedutugupewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8djpvtdfprs59kko1p129lv2m5/45771939018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da7f978f9a---gajoworezokujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/977c2bbe8851e508b3510f418edba4b5/juvuganexigibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c10b5cb20---ladewomusodaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/1039185634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608864d17561c---60009768509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/27801098395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080acbc93859---18503685549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/47576872302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zomisodenupilitutiwupole.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_off0000f0f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F5 16944 bytes
SHA-256: bbcb283ecb158caa3728bf07287a344049e45b8ece60df3cde95b259e351474e
font_01_sfnt_off00011cda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F1 10348 bytes
SHA-256: a7bfd415a7625598e712dd6011bd9bcd7f6d19d344ac7523122630c830c1a711