Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92a9ba05562d2e21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 03:54:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 467ac7bd46b3725ed6370fb550280729 SHA-1: d4bcdd1282cac4eaf74465e3728743dfcbe13e25 SHA-256: 92a9ba05562d2e217175b328212b455f062e117576c7ed14bf75682d3d674a0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Some of these links point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a potential phishing or malware distribution vector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=organic+chemistry+exam+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/55258314851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/torazodokezawevukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fashiongale.ro/userfiles/files/20877834478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.by/userfiles/files/xadedojazatokomazuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/binipomofanuresizuganakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents/files/dokudefunubusukadilabage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipbizde.com/calisma2/files/uploads/67867933781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/migonusik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/34066966783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/33653166381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminentland.com/admin/userfiles/files/58535551310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/masexodubunomoxobelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f72fdcfb7---renijetanivegukisomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/30107342509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ecf7c8b37c---vokefewegobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5of7edwardstreet.com/assets/media/files/33585785928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/9066367120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210901_150556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanxuantravel.com/upload/files/45658374336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poongdung.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_AA93674AF311C4D8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a7ab7d7b9c---golukovidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/dejunegozorifesipupoxutod.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_off0000dad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD7 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 4c3ec214cc96dc32626c09f4a04291aeed24dd4af176533acd6e0ddbfeaa58d3
font_01_sfnt_off00010709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10709 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F20 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 068afe166d2f8ba792950df272af1920a7d6d9635402f9409fd8103caed14b8f