Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92ad8522258a89aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-08-21 18:42:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7032f084f30237932152139e0f74ec96 SHA-1: 84e85404790e9a56f4f1127854c79b9442a48f9e SHA-256: 92ad8522258a89aa8f68f847f2ef19e70fb3748fdab236dc6cf4e72c48d08829
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d192fcf196f287be8015d07a312dcb80/89258634902.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boeschfamilytravels.com/clients/43210/File/53255776057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/pofuveko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/21772337487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/bidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e66d1ucagj1l8os3sjh4skqqi0/nalojadanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fad120f6b---96008745545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf4a5d6298a649c3c69a9942bbb55d89/90678772106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pogiruzikojuxiwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/katukazosikakuruzuxijijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080998cdcb99---roxugiwevodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160befb746441d---31766778870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e58fd123580---momijudabodifubumulazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/zoromefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd66336e1ac6ce3a43b6469f508a01a/55756862798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/pefuwinimowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210707055325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovec.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33796000712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed3ff303c2---gimifujiwiwuxelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/xonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609471f72eab3---49023081069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cc0fdf3cbc---dolilexijazupaxutevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c3ff1ad6c---15144688755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+photoshop+tutorials+for+beginners+2019PDF 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_off00011118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11118 11460 bytes
SHA-256: bb7d20630b28c3a9cdaf5adc8650d87e3c7925c14bdbe5d089e379bc5a9eb571
font_01_sfnt_off00012bbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BBE 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 2b18fb3148888a7fa909b78b0fff993b30ee60cd70123fddf9818ea6a105b4fb
font_02_sfnt_off00015828.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15828 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1