Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92805ec2a8b144ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-08-24 20:36:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 37741b42867c3edbb30e624ea2e8736d SHA-1: 599418ae7158827ae2b31de29da38c63387b0079 SHA-256: 92805ec2a8b144ce0397cbdfd155741164151b697f6b95bd524178895049af4f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. Additionally, numerous URLs were found pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or host phishing content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=who+does+lorelai+end+up+with PDF link annotation
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608651cb03b99---lojorulosetujegupatizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiaranannini.com/userfiles/files/dojaviguniwumewuduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb815c90b8---79142513975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kumsalgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/refomelasemamoxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0f44880ee---63927863192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72c5457033---84276883929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/parujijuxipita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/5298597762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushistoryus.com/uploads/files/9513447901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savemaxint.com/files/file/61803659747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd3291a58b---2711331509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/84696418171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/redusegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/14749148231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0d45108d633deb7eee4e392faec9539/bikamuririla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734e98197e1---4404181698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramseier-appenzell.ch/elrada/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88341811694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/dovenalajabegufalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607a574152cbc---sokuwigebezuvoremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodka.eu/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50982147360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ecc34b296---40301070070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607650bbc16c2---2582950416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ea02cee1d09204078c3702e2076b56d/togifolavul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangbienhaitien.com/uploads/files/gepegogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/76156139085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriggio.it/userfiles/files/xogarekomogov.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_off00010062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10062 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11874 16864 bytes
SHA-256: 27d14757dd81df2e0bdc992839835fb793c301f0271ea5079d8adef5cbc7b673
font_02_sfnt_off0001449b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1449B 10668 bytes
SHA-256: d0914092a510a87625b920c422604f9708bbdc36bf8479e59b458ea5ccbe934d