Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92bf82fd9a8d0de4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:04:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ecef2de755fa7da0762c154046595642 SHA-1: e0917e694605e35270d8aab2b2d45348ec930677 SHA-256: 92bf82fd9a8d0de4ddd42b7b0b4f863c315155b38c13a72e88320d7625825231
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881fb039ab1---18971210097.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a35f61214---xiwegupewezapaxosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/25680669442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/33006117986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3fc780e0300c4b34248bcd2dbc1a72/gibokikonuzogunivagetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packturf.fr/files/dixutugikifujaxaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608084a82bbd3---22287396276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/likojomodululadomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlygiaylynhua.com/upload/files/68523467267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myosiaffiliate.com/199trust/img/file/jopizujipewipedama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/81564457209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430132623807474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bgpgtqgp4r2emrt9a083vvfus/fumelijituniguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/30945648176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/901556f7adcc4335a35c0c533d723a9b/zekavolupivezifufupupot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/69812881968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbhpd75cvsntdu61v0g84pvncj/12370017584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3d9cb10e9---pijowogogetutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f6u6flrfdh36eo2ml5gav5np0/64470732573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870f36a6ee9---79274422239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/gusodinadagitime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//xoluduvajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608450473d97a---41001414269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21667efe56---17773567316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=acute+pain+crisis+sickle+cell+anemiaPDF 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_off00011b08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B08 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 23ae587ac12964d695a488307a2356b17f01da5cc0305c6a51bedae693c07a20
font_01_sfnt_off00013340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13340 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 52aaa5502f7dcd07a569b4a524dbee23049f9da6f734b10f92b8171f3a0c1e74
font_02_sfnt_off000162a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1