Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92b16f6cc8fb13ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:50:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e21e6e454502563f3d3398dba2c3166b SHA-1: 23a9d386c6c77b9853de5bed548ae2577436fe82 SHA-256: 92b16f6cc8fb13ac3dcc3d09ebf80f553bb0cf1bf4b2e21326c31b9569e03faf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=draw+the+triangular+prism+and+its+net PDF link annotation
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7459aed3432ffbf93b3d11e5248a1bef/76404980944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74984d2c98fce114f46c827b56c54c5a/sufepakuludokeluwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210525130622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/reradozituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8rpt67mn8r3lcfvk40g2qist3/motekelakepowopiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc75b153ba7---16694995303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b66db24041---puvugixikufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/22407636905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/fabafunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/39061178434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tsu462bg8ggmthh5iedraepbb/lufekivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-exclusive.cz/userfiles/file/duvolovowovapoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d6a8a7f61a2d0f2e0d07a491ea97874/14069277705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweed-trans.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sefiwejopol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripizuzugalunesitate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6903d0d50905bc2d60fc7f8ea0d03aff/48869455690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84734bcc1b---18444407493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//5037201558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/19432486369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9e294e3f9---tofinakomesobivifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onellenorzes.com/uploads/files/wakufaseriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/23075253945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f14d0388b---gakonoletov.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_off0000d7a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB6 18212 bytes
SHA-256: 8fc4645ac1616c392e00392f10df23ec4222fdebecf81a8efd1f359fc90a808b
font_02_sfnt_off00011f4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4C 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 9319d2cfc31234589bb5954fa4ed546717d6fe0918b0584e53fdcf95f41b25a4