Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92aa786648b3ae42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 09:42:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3ff2010bd5dfd21441c13ef689f0d937 SHA-1: 72b4cbede58eedc6303b1a92e397cd27c159808c SHA-256: 92aa786648b3ae4211320239101eb4ce80c28cfc012f1524ab0af2bdaa3e6fca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elementary+economic+theory+by+kk+dewett+pdf+download
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/54787525160.pdf
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac423988928---59311507914.pdf
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1625611432707308014.pdf
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d00b99788a8fe1be56b0a466afc6dade/73845746361.pdf
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/92481179090.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607788ccd48c3---84378673281.pdf
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/36364617626.pdf
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/654f4d1173328e842642393c420111d6/punepa.pdf
    • https://caror.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5566090404.pdf
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nld71nm87c92m8e6qe3pstq84o/mukoxep.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/302a370a51c969f8590125ca885695c8/67717848558.pdf
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14b9ed705a57f26cda0a3a9cc0aae0b2/61762056134.pdf
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eaae20982f---lozomenofudasujoru.pdf
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd6f5cc67fc4b0900f29b4e9b7cee0e9/51509875427.pdf
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/91630848035.pdf
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcppnccppb1v50kd594ndlir2f/87581580796.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/53340104452.pdf
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd657235f7efef637a16484fea6b9b7f/99791498347.pdf
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d19e66d114ca000b1a8ce070376bf6f/37765115024.pdf
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24d7f2bde26d0b6079eca53720a54d0b/gotup.pdf
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc4b5d075e---jazusudedun.pdf
    • http://northwestpixie-bobs.com/clients/e/e1/e1941a3904c49320334fd90e0ed9e852/File/71454715147.pdf
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizowasebesuwodipubuzasip.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d43b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD43B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec4d.bin
577fd584fad9128452d9e95972a2b89f84d55214341b2c352bc8c8994f7dfefc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4D 16864 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011846.bin
716d4580c118ed236554080eb2cd8336b20e18dcbdd684c070fbda9bc734b7a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11846 11132 bytes