Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d92b55f60c25871…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:57:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2d7a3cd16245362e2b62fc33c204ad13 SHA-1: 835a072789844908606bdc209f9f450d8d483020 SHA-256: 0d92b55f60c25871a6fab944ab937d5eefdbfd6ab64ced8a1aef702911f6d909
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=newest+religion+in+the+world PDF link annotation
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/22035557888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monikaknoblochova.com/userfiles/file/27066737006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/suwilijumasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94352df7dd72865f418f31cd088fc76/zimekinabudulutaremuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/25298627533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/635631b4196a8fdbc556bbbc73d75721/53258700639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b00ce47225a---rogosapalesonulade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsultantrading.ae/userfiles/files/dumanipuzazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/pisejulawapuwazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9ai1dquhmjngas5t87nh4obsv/93022163092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enerjimakine.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/12966053787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/6620850694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608355c0d5974---80254650733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/girowobiturapobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f74d8e2abde---75289975710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/mexuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/galonazesunogemiwupejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb317cd67e9---mejokatumome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/mepivixibekukewagawuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailycan.com/userfiles/files/49095515449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/kewuranakukudori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a81da6a4e---46434407291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hai-bi.com/uploads/files/202108272343128385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/papisobolesig.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_off0000e480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE480 17464 bytes
SHA-256: be59455cc1ddf3166ae8511c765597a57b8417cac1448ee72a8c03d7ca073f59
font_01_sfnt_off00011150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11150 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 9c041180b2eaa1018d3c4bb1f67db5314d0cabe852bf47f617f55bdd47856ff2
font_02_sfnt_off000128b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1