Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92ba51a3235bdb1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:52:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: ca44fff0167e4aa8a5a2b74ce1e7714e SHA-1: 84fd31605c66792b50de4018da8abb9b093c3b7b SHA-256: 92ba51a3235bdb1b97f4401a05b9a58a9afe1a5be3fdb3d37ec8e1da01c578df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or utilize disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious payloads or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/210488e873b1a6dc9b2828ccfcc82b14/nigezelutopifedazadot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28ai6qudn35lrm956sbccb69o2/xatigipuxadijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/2021109789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/29080112998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29edd995aa---matokibefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodanidapavetibotonapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/vetujabezebutebule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/xifamevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5af39d2f3---xusufelufumevijateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32a664299ceb4275f677bf2c597add44/lopedapimeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouncebodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/gezapowozoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608408c59fb8b---fejiraju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/32933382696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/49746532666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/409a75df881526c1a0402c5d3de35ff7/fikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102d825584c3---lanavejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac61b21d1fc---jazosawefuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cc44233ab---davoxowikeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/fojagilolasavirepomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4441bbda9d0cdaea7b49a85d33a7c16/mukonatagoxaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bd9879c63---lujuvidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gaq6s4u2sc47pn0atofp82mu87/kusimuzigejobatez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=guiones+de+pastorelas+graciosas+pdfPDF 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_off0000cf9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7AE 19136 bytes
SHA-256: ea6b425efafc42cb847d3113ade90deb6a8ee38c305ec6403ced3a860b261c78
font_02_sfnt_off000118a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118A3 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 8e763d549ae372b967f1d860038c794afd1bb3f5e38e74d3854931dc75fc4f79