Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92a4743faa866fb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:08:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c2ffb7752727830045e6b7deca17a082 SHA-1: f7074f329bf11a268135f35c617545835e126614 SHA-256: 92a4743faa866fb31b82065521a69129cce03b657e3bafaeb420549d3979c2a5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The presence of an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an attempt to redirect the user to these external links. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and URL distribution indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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 http://hmsendo.pl/uploads/editor/file/lusuwusiwaniwul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/60884466385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c38a5b3cfd54e0061d0f47d8d8e2307/voratefaweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeriviluvanemoritoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6f6l5tpd5m5e73nft2dvesqoq/rudiloxifozubenam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.offshoreyachts.net/web_upload/editor/files/dedelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f888f63b6d20192579b65f16b36784a8/74807842441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uiflf3t8ku466557rken2bupli/71860071384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/lijadozekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehonourride.ca/clients/c/c2/c2a221447f3e921143a55eca482c8289/File/67660457491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777b958d4d4---soniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c527e20fa36bb1ebd2e0671d3b83d524/63282969464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6ce442b336---ditebuziwurotumenuziboraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0ff23e034---polupimurototozofifela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noxediwuzibamofanadasukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0ee31af4eabcff96d4e7f805c7e5158/povapupobumeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wipaphun.com/UserFiles/File/gugavadidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejuxaxodavelufutujojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/lunixuvegezopusebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/97976638512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319d60c653d---sokazebamafuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608165ceacb87---saxoropibijovisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b1299aa1b---89799493827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=2006+jeep+liberty+repair+manualPDF 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_off0000d772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD772 16552 bytes
SHA-256: 58c92f413fc62698e9f26cab8108ea858ba8e56525e5dc3fa85f493d76db5fa4
font_01_sfnt_off000102b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B9 10924 bytes
SHA-256: f673f1e8ac0af9af870c66608c2a28528b7ceb89ac9308dc347e01b990bf3859
font_02_sfnt_off00011bcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1