Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5092f20c065ede8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 17:20:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6af7662d6812416d547859b532ca492d SHA-1: 44935f5ee32ea503a7dae3c937bd9179cf553bc0 SHA-256: 5092f20c065ede8e5503039b75ba46cd2e44c562aa35720fd5a84eb2c51ccf17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, some of which are hosted on disposable domains or utilize WordPress upload vulnerabilities. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to distribute phishing content or further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5amnkd8q330jdniqoilcck42go/fowugirarumejudimubem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/45441345530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odkdnmrhci8ftsrfiopgtve2rh/rizegafuvavedumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcaa47886ef---72165051227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wilizegoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfdddc9f539a9b4ad8db15a5d261df1a/renufawanezojugedapazadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b53feecfc---27653031676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/vobose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f2419b296---43003304327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad9e07d89b---54566086797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa77c85b6a02ba047d88df667a07898e/21275639314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohsclassof70.com/clients/3/31/31ca850ff086a58b81c8700e10a01852/File/48537656002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humicdp.com/uploads/2021-07-15/images/files/jufibuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/11962455987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/65083197369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d61a8a4c9---19766190306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889d04ae15c---80666162000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd0273de786b01b3f7b1cd3ec96cd957/93349448423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a779a6adda5---ronuzoguririrulemap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uh7ht1d17ehrhq1qft5du8bthp/pepurevogugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d34fe198a4e920203a1e82e53db9fba2/jugiborafuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+shawn+mendes+songs+are+therePDF 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_off0000e3dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DD 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 27f3da806902a7943fd0d5b32fcb5acf8ef00710b30983a19f19ee20aa5c2185
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC36 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 8956fe3ad0b191b6db1ecfb9788e1d3ec953920edea1b304141bb8a9ffa10e62
font_02_sfnt_off0001293c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1