Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0892d56d5b8cc110…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:21:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 86374671cb7672e9691078afdf1a8834 SHA-1: 3b923c6514c286a8ac23d26f04fb5773741f5d70 SHA-256: 0892d56d5b8cc11034a065803a9b6a77eff0fb99c0582c3fc776094d72eabc91
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/77016744709.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aecvfcom.nrgence.com/upload/userfiles/files/vibisekuzumonemuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51a9a224a6c198b6a76e0fabb129b0b4/dopewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/gibimazobawumedeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkyangmei.com/uploadfile/file/2021090517530973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/75961262012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekevizuremopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613065780273a---61846001359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/391209cf4573c6ab724de05a5def7a64/dapuneboganotugapedelaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiksha24.com/userfiles/files/wanamedixipuxojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interconformity.ro/images/file/69119493540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/rorovadaferejovuwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/sukunebobovinojolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57945656772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613424fe915e0---76704751549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afma.pt/site/upload/file/wikuwaverorakatokinaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fd7401894---19235091217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/66510895324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/wefogidumufunomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55004906697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korankertas.com/contents/files/wavoferanusinugonega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/84985226465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biographiewerkstatt-singer.de/userfiles/file/12528093471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pgp-puh.hr/fck_media/file/zatosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.com/userfiles/file/xuvatelizufikukiwixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=android+audio+balance+appPDF link annotation
    • http://www.thaiticketmajor.com/static/imgUpload/files/gapixeteviro.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_off0000e912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE912 18316 bytes
SHA-256: 13c11b1c92cdb984e04a62344bb0c9546d1f82cf725ea8fc295e43f4a73d670a
font_01_sfnt_off000118d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130EC 10460 bytes
SHA-256: f3c38740ff314d87a0c1ad298fda35a2c61ab291a9e339158f743dcb26c648b0