Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92901f095b7207a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.8 KB Created: 2021-08-09 12:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4e791a9b7b754ae8be75f94c4ab24802 SHA-1: dc53a807b06f6aea1fa77ddd34108e8c2a29bcd1 SHA-256: 92901f095b7207a2a75f3a7c717738bdd496442b2504f89b90248b9fad99ee93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary evidence comes from the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/sumizoruridisexekuxixi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/wifejuvagajamatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ef2f1dc03---67511472279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79f87407ddbd9c4de4692105e2e86d36/kegatenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06ra61n87fve9dgb5bs29u77up/lufepijupelunenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalaviationmuseum.com/userfiles/files/linabobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtge1qo8j6dnqr3l2s2uo09vvb/32258200808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mamuliritujotatigemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/posedumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7okjp61h1l4pae12vvfejtkkr7/48494123463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/74699791010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/vajomimotafawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738bea546d9---11383068571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a71b1229e3---73534202127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyingfish-stay.com/userfiles/file/jususilupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/fuxesibuvofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/184b8b310dbe9b99ba3968e6d0960cef/54709153566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/18835638177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d8583d27c---tinanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd6e6420fa---rireralewuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giayviettri.com/img-ftec/files/gamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=oecd+transfer+pricing+guidelines+2010+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off00013b41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B41 16428 bytes
SHA-256: 4cfb5b98f5daf4c3779558ad841ce6ab21872fea4f68e5af037b6f0949ce0021
font_01_sfnt_off000165d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165D1 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 13ef85761020039552e0b3e41fac6a53c9f20249473e5a6e3b97b1be674c63aa
font_02_sfnt_off00018068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18068 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1