Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f292244f49ea4da7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 15:35:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bff1de213b337c13b275fa836528cb4d SHA-1: d39bc7b7a1dc1d79509ebee496fa15315a2f2c79 SHA-256: f292244f49ea4da74a1462db194371bbcd0b890bc335f024747d4176c39301e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, likely to distribute further malware or phishing content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a spearphishing attachment vector, with the document itself serving as a lure to exploit clients.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://tuzlakart.com/files/nixepoduvokesok.pdf
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/58672729878.pdf
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608963432dc4d---10610031556.pdf
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/78387147376.pdf
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b20682d450b54258d8a7507e47f442d/83327089491.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e28516d6211---18077592008.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097673c5d419---44983134848.pdf
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b900168ef0---63622211455.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ecbb15756---51729651190.pdf
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonajesotapage.pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720fd5794fe---45494670705.pdf
    • http://glenbrooksouth1970.com/clients/1/17/17fc1bd13d5538a69f39d58c869d2fc5/File/vuwudikunewiwutex.pdf
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/53829717536.pdf
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/jifuvarijemewozolubalun.pdf
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77nbkmgg9b3ujq7ojvgto33mug/40350010892.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983d38b3cf3---julilopevam.pdf
    • http://vicorsupply.com/uploads/images//files/pidugiboxodesegug.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebefe57334---83502030538.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb21c9127b9---91108791876.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb85633ad2a---33109288971.pdf
    • http://didula.com/img/file/99777509934.pdf
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nodgjvan1a5lhq7oaifd62tem1/47753703001.pdf
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/80976472044.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/19113252509.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=oconee+county+tax+assessor+property+search
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e72a.bin
48746b1adf9904059162d4ad33f44d26240aef291c0b2dde74dbf10884a2c190
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE72A 10676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117ca.bin
9d5bbbceb54a7852c98d631dd38056cc598f203cefa1d95167a342b24cedfbee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CA 16452 bytes