Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a92ff6b8d484e6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:32:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9fdba6bc0ed873224db880b312929c84 SHA-1: 37863bf9d7e607e8a5a1bb1560c74112ca248817 SHA-256: 7a92ff6b8d484e6ad832e7a04a8fe02deb16892e9a015f535698aba85dca8b6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibuwi.pdf
    • https://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/50699882359.pdf
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/zuzewuletunogi.pdf
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/94942010061.pdf
    • http://xindeshiye.com/uploadfile/file///2021090613314127.pdf
    • https://candica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58095164070.pdf
    • https://www.highettmetal.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dalobanefuwizafalejalepa.pdf
    • http://musicpark-live.com/userfiles/file/vemidovokisediwipuged.pdf
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/babonosev.pdf
    • https://h1t-url12shio-turbo.com/contents/files/toxenagimisut.pdf
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/12028641625.pdf
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ffa83fe0d---xabujiminuberoz.pdf
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/livofen.pdf
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/34677064826.pdf
    • http://fivelscope.net/fckimages/gifinozirenamuxa.pdf
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba0535aa9b---53165183720.pdf
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/2056793043613981d12ddd9.pdf
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/21501991897.pdf
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/kanasalame.pdf
    • http://rkenterprisesonline.com/FCKeditor/file/26812600363.pdf
    • https://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/52948497431.pdf
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fa137a2fd61c74238993dcf5ea6160a/41442479962.pdf
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/vuvumarizajopen.pdf
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/25011805683.pdf
    • https://newshieldinsurance.com/demo/gsa/final/images/file/wiwizaworinegiwigexop.pdf
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/suzekedesuve.pdf
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roruguti.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfe50d4e9b5408c9b68b5d26c1662f76/tovuvovon.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mary+queen+of+scots+2018+watch+online
    • 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_off0000c01a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC01A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d831.bin
7a6c33827435adae5322f120015ccbc558959a064d0c87ca36f5b2b7f93e7430
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD831 11372 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f324.bin
2086b5af9d1a6e5ddd30aafbea48a588647392200a5cf65b4a69afd6b85591e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF324 16908 bytes