Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 920305358c16fefa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 01:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3f965079af7ef021f6468c240708a9d3 SHA-1: 6e4fe8d393732cd02615051e25787fb1eb0e6b59 SHA-256: 920305358c16fefa60f9f31a2c2c610cf44eb5a8f7d68b401db914bee8d7ea9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not provide direct executable content but serve as lures to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://megatex-plast.ru/pub/file/valoraj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/ralugosefiboliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/682v7qngp86jenrg549vrbul3h/12540241467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428dc37c99611a5e90398f559f09100e/37887446698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/xinuxezibubokutawinejuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/koxeputor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/12090037072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/jutusodake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamgi.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwamebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/77364554373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/zugaratonulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/kakanimamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613399ba0b54c---rosunajilaxalorozinoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/jezagawepozifejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/fapavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/gopirukoxiwaxetebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websurin.net/UserFiles/File/xigeliwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/25560343013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330d83382d9---gilavipuwevaferav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumisaedu.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_4A7C054C888C9414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/fibezuxefadizunitivuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aguito.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludivosolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufiruginajomonomaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=shadow+fight+2+offline+modPDF 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_off0000d24c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD24C 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 98dbbdb1c821979d7c7cf82460e1782fd1690e6b3983557c7451a393775262b3
font_01_sfnt_off00010032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10032 10812 bytes
SHA-256: c58aa3b75d8a8377aa05e384761e78f3f43a3c20b7b734f0abdbe914a4ccdde1
font_02_sfnt_off000118d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1