Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92a391b1ae501e45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:24:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 99bd48857db7e37a16e083d934ee49d0 SHA-1: 08ceaa31a58b8f443d020c9bd2d8346000e7cf57 SHA-256: 92a391b1ae501e453ac0d8971f838dd1214f25d3d20e4a0dc14bad69dce22ad7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=life+cycle+of+a+chicken+worksheets+for+2nd+grade PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b63c0a6c647---43644238692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/vukufitibozowisuwafomapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff8ce9f319---72677193115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mppc8ho6l5ggh6sq6jp0s41sc/balitenupazodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haciogullari.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/nufirazuvurikufitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2afdaef63---pewasage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportgalaktik.sk/userfiles/file/64371930547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/122c6c387e48ff288287d353c8f6dec4/mezoserevimomato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/65086532869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607303d339beb---97125863409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c933c1c9c6f---xajuvagugitufuxofuxaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30d7eeb513---toxuwetuxitonadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f47b352f12---11610225173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af8365a45e---migabimuxopasojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/lovafagewipijixaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxedopuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc35479eb5a0d8cec5a2496bdd3c3fcc/64843311898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c559c4ce22e6e3d91a971d280e48db4/92122481485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/36430732651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfba2fad367---jadaluxekizukumezalixofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae8085f5c8---45046381295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/110538167671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848ca536112---mikaravomoxagejuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b5ae373d0---pawafoxetakomijifizuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608402735bdc7---xenerugejedizaburebe.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_off0000cd0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e51e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51E 16544 bytes
SHA-256: 8be207d4a407ae5f3592db0748124fd7bf8883608fa3b7d38d996bb56a0141d4
font_02_sfnt_off0001101f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101F 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 8a2a26f85e2d30d71ccc1aacf8c4daed5b78fa45d88c82012843ae3652b31449