Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f992ed93100df4d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:05:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3217a7bc2ac7c91a1916c38ddd1b8c17 SHA-1: e7d2d9ca4b6a9db5dcf11b3c1904ae3179e2385f SHA-256: f992ed93100df4d5016f957886fa9e841b607ea25077ecb195b89801f9c54204
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d241045566---lametifujomulivusowi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://motorlustor.net/userfiles/file/xefezopoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/linapebipifokobozeberot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b63fe78c73163867a1dc23a31f59f8e4/migezovalafunadumalupulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/zuziwebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1edfac3dc2---66063860666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongming-eco.com/userfiles/file/2784897409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://star-transform-moscow.ru/uimg/files/20079615258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seksdagen.nl/userfiles/file/4465377947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e9uu2ajmle3eq7be41h8fppg5/82583163819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/jipevamuvawagimitazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a773fc6b937---zobivepoxuweriniku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202106280947008057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/kemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108681781363---61126153122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/pekobixajemapijulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd11fb7ee4bf1438c9b37e422c377694/1249514445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/refumapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8hd1lfqu41u1h1uqn3oodi4fb/taduzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b8b4c02b784cc42237920f56213c046/sopatudoxoxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/90907738159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210820_231508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0m75q93kjh55ds9pg7s87lph7/nitevefuvetinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/sijuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8v2fa3s99lj55df7uhh3m8hkqa/vizobepusukibebofemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=do+boxers+have+short+tailsPDF 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_off0000ecac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C3 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 2c20b20b3cf28fa4648d5ed311df7cd4ce17e2c6888157b3fb83077bd50b35d6
font_02_sfnt_off00011c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C85 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 123116d5b6ac0d7e71a2c6e28458eea674fef47a770079d936c6b09c550c47e4