Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92108994dca9235b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:45:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7c5964b7d087ee693f92ad4be10e00c4 SHA-1: bdd748a54f3dcd37b8ce15287ce4ad177994eeb7 SHA-256: 92108994dca9235b1ee7c3b85b6e358ad7c8b7945e41ea6646e59377b63844d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF that functions as a link farm, directing users to various external websites. Several of these links point to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/51057833487.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://menuiserie-sainte-anne.fr/userfiles/file/kibezowefajitupeworebaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosedreamholidayhomes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawuvarasox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/goditikakitosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroupe.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/76522496327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/93659078695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083844042360---15866481367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lorejemibubarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6bbb69c11e1e3050c1fd09aafa272d3/87295873718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/tinoxiseritokikovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210806_062407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e0c635b64---86447818846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7af4c4ee7f1a0a2c6d17c0b6852cb3e/pumupulalivotivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/silodajotozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5814598a93---zawidos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/kufasobububufinove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d8beca241---60599349216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a03d0b454---534198352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinabailey.com/upload/files/dakibikubelumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///levifuloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/68271614197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202108/file/210803023552809589dpggr9jajhc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6848cf2e0---71535397322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37883153699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=nyeri+kepala+kronik+pdfPDF 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_off0000e10e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE10E 16368 bytes
SHA-256: 0abaa8d0b16d2f3274572a3b5a7dd7b3d0a126ad4466e7a88c7948b1d5eaa9af
font_01_sfnt_off00010b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B81 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 3ef50268d0b923785a8b30d527d508320602fb6d8523ccfd99fa9f86a81502f6
font_02_sfnt_off00012323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12323 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1