Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92abc31d742ea33c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:57:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 95de04806dfa4c0b535fe28caf0256cc SHA-1: 492a7e038c6eee7682ab8918e06fd3cc5431d473 SHA-256: 92abc31d742ea33ca8fc3885742efd132dcd366e66fe7390b0de68123de3654f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=numbness+in+head+and+face
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/pulukasafavofudi.pdf
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66f826af4f---lofisiwapizunixus.pdf
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/40933506528.pdf
    • http://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/7951007123.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/verurupibonew.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b225a1cfda---57345472634.pdf
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce15c20a85---98574713100.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13d3c5c667---81698261209.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1nvd5vphrmt8o52r23b20ufd2/nofeneneveberexo.pdf
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/286562009.pdf
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/wupilekurusajamefexib.pdf
    • https://nutritie-metabolism-sanatate.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/32740161961.pdf
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/80624113024.pdf
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a7d9a9ef0---sinisifokejita.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4ac22dcb3b84e9ce9addb3f2139203/namawojukanifujakosekibod.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00dee72e4275c96674a24a197d009a9c/9967939958.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f1dee2e05---mokesexanudoguz.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c521ec5beaa---30108272565.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a75837040d6b3c75a22746758c208ec/4443223088.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1ced408578---legelipepimil.pdf
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/98762317629.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2a4d2dd02---nuletogivafexavuz.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_off0000e553.bin
57b841a26e261c76dce28e762fe83165449061ae6b8eace8cca0c36fc9218bf3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE553 16396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fd4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000127eb.bin
5687535f8dcc9b90d2e4bdd3e1b36a20dd8ed36d26eeff7738e25d4071f3c61c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127EB 10592 bytes