Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92723f0268e51828…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:20:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4088088f6ea071f0c9d12411675ca73f SHA-1: b6c851dc3941a08d3d17fd28c970b5709fdfa9ec SHA-256: 92723f0268e518283c73290e6f5b442b50cc252558656545732f0f37c32dbc08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI links and link farm heuristics suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pedro+y+el+lobo+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://thsport.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojilarekenirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kunaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109042236016246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/82470379743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40062853318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finpacecuador.com/userfiles/file/nurotiruvefuwixupekibima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1227901a16ff24fd3bbc46351aed680/62308722277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rotasivuraburolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15441707.com/data/board/file/20210911003351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panel2conso.com/userfiles/file/14450293754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/wapagosikezurirunojemukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e1332cfdc2---batuvekoxemaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/gelixorubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-grafik.de/userfiles/file/bamuvufebamuwubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/zemiwipamofepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea39b6f9cd---70135487972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210902014034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161465d877387f---95860267960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/8349332239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/2109190917373712866hlnum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e56164f73e---95161427801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/gakixupawumuvakopituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a3ac2c6a574a4e79f94c14db4af7c8/gekado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jexowufaruvirowot.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_off0000cef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF8 19940 bytes
SHA-256: 0a827b577a9e3456c9571fd17b1d56d1c54737d39aca23ca27e586ef01335d5c
font_01_sfnt_off0001026d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A84 10124 bytes
SHA-256: 0a65fc2fe5ff7df970630ea7403a4d7400162b258eec89b5e04a17a75331c5ff