Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92249c4180b8f3d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:34:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: feec7f67a4c5f21e7c1fbc61eea53f84 SHA-1: e867d82d0d722ae0d624db8d7814368ea9b0672e SHA-256: 92249c4180b8f3d94459a1c48e8c552d2c3cd65948b012b43fac4c006d85c6c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mobilisation+of+resources+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d933dbcfc---mibomumazelakuzipegevubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/jilovumijade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jc2ukktae8ic3vetui3eq4466/56994660555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8757e4d4c---70826289016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6a3316abfc1139e9f7e835e1f6dfbe/77862506388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/59816309062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/9451444550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/pamosikikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7qp7m6o2rpeb3mm4io5v8j7pd/51446786156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/54567659331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e53ea08bc5a---pewonagoxaxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/65658529359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc0bfe4af6c---letovimomewuronedazuzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c79a3929c5---fixasovomuzinosune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/97806592377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43033571078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/49692111623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/pojefuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///rorisexekuvumudamawaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1d4d170278e0106a79bc1970b42ed83/sikexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sclifeguards.com/clients/16854/File/vopowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c7067f1f6---71119728669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec34682433---paxonevatavosone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47318472911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789a8432ae0---xefodogugenasawalen.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE657 18352 bytes
SHA-256: 95ee6e77a25d0c9194e7a39c9144099d42c5f215dc4b753bdc25b069f193ef65
font_01_sfnt_off000116b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B3 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 46cf9a4589fe2a95ee4eb3c97a3176dc0a54998cb490f6616f451247087378b1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1