Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92c4bd8000c18621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-08-07 04:11:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dfe497a49b6d87a8cf85cd35e0da17dd SHA-1: 851a6f44888be67d942b0f636a16d1fac16a2c39 SHA-256: 92c4bd8000c186213bd16c44cfa64bb3bf0bc5a1ef678879033cbca4797cfd05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content hosted on compromised websites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure points to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alien+run+3+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c8c288f34---judugewokalaxorikokelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/mekanuruxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-27/20210627124541884075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugskin.org/userfiles/file/84581465454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28a3af36df7a23a60e1b383015b6b94f/kilopitibuzemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c587ec29cba---97407662752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a92581259c680356273d2eb535bcf96/kikaxokigopulajoxexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da7037d4249---68833213492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/mumexokofujukezurudemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/39564162289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/pubefokinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhighclassof60.com/clients/871169/File/denufibalawerezexivagivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a6cd8d905---livobabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfabfb447e---42131735903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okudshava.ru/userfiles/file/jatovalizibevamokaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96cff48c45---7505319104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cef2763c262---91842544644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1055da6e7---putem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc44cbf636305265df8ed7282d75022/nalutujediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608895d6e39fa---ralogorarolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/setilabipimapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/80154495052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/bigapiwenetipukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ac7a1b4b8---32362500293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03ff73feb11a39cdaabe65838119ded6/jikepatudojupoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8g39jnh14djb8lms00r54s9ast/37435022379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/xupipixalujeliwubulakivon.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_off0000dd9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9C 10420 bytes
SHA-256: aeef099f9ed080d51cfebe2a2f929d711864becaebec58f6227fa695c8f28e63
font_01_sfnt_off0000f54e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54E 16632 bytes
SHA-256: 8038c9aae879decdf3e77e437d66a59d75c604831b69b8c6871290281a8e5726
font_02_sfnt_off0001204c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1