Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92c247065a499676…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:07:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 886931c213bd49584b91f1ad8338d2cf SHA-1: 8376dfdb56c6d5b926ba6ac31f967011216210fa SHA-256: 92c247065a499676a62edf0f0c40a3a265ae0e5f5312450c1a513f90e9181165
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a link farm to host malicious files. The presence of external URIs and a 'download button' lure suggests an attempt to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+table+of+contents+word+2016+mac PDF link annotation
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071342f1687a---47123516514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16231119213938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e706821bc6---76770886157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612883a972aae---71251260960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1op2uhjmq5605jlsel62mie6c/46962091304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/64027071917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609006bcd873e---zajujirozibodulirerobibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c520c2d7d9a---kugitopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e8fe2b5aa339036fd57bed8048dacc5/vifupuborinovetetom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju3dbbou25n46tljfbdanur056/kevabarivumakowuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0811/c377748004e2e729e5b5db6b02d2c13d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/18133986327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44617dc304d46dc9456d8026a4c0f017/jumolisixabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210828071050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0aac924a3---xojaruror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e255347b6c---57995071194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309549a65b5---gujovavadawakuvefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ural-aiti.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelowoxuluzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halanmilk.com/upload/files/ritunopexepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents/files/zurijuluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81207531785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/78657203926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/gikodawawujusiduxako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6f1bc3e178---sebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/93135452584.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_off0000ea4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10265 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 9c216a43984a64759322707a159de942d8f7644746491de28bba628b81815ec4
font_02_sfnt_off00011d3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D3A 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 083d8e69e91c6b6a64a35c5521ad4706e1fc8a72aa88b4466d38c86fdcbffa25