Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92170a58e7d6b75a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 16:45:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5afe90005a09fb127b9feee566b10df6 SHA-1: c6675e927aef272be814dd1c4c1d23269305e11d SHA-256: 92170a58e7d6b75a4271fc452875dae4ebe995dd72a026d9beeded7a2c5f1fa7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+outer+edge+of+a+circle+called PDF link annotation
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/43163317424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a7478ab9c---kikujofagudujojizadavava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/96037976287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/dujajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d58a791e50---domodebabenerikekilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1fd97eee4a1aa1f334eae1cc70e97b3/vinigifotovezezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/wigiletokasepotosapulubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928db516980---57825157503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/nawamezitigopowivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/77478584816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81e537b010c059cda85e5577a3015a11/rumafavoxaberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/nujibuloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d56da1cba99---sajigirakinewepulasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/96502806022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbg0ukn57pk48a2mlhiqpmo08e/72061391278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vb6uu6lldebd044e6rdurg8mhl/82845825556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607526f3ae68a---68407288452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64784355647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03af211a17---26735463388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210621060938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/34230311992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/miligam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6d9449104---85158565754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210513/file/16209025892946.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15035 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16847 21816 bytes
SHA-256: 555e4ddad81422e0653cb265632d56e130cbcfb7c2c613e4b3d57b7cfd6938a3
font_02_sfnt_off0001a191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A191 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 47e19470379b501fc0ae5ea0a428017c86c583928f1d44d56c15f19226c7374e
font_03_sfnt_off0001ba3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BA3A 16224 bytes
SHA-256: 7dd5fb61ea0ea1e3370d26720032e9d3de5740e898843eef2fe92164eee2597e