Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92c963fe834ba478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 02:11:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5f6cae91890e80266290e9f6e52f2da9 SHA-1: 54ffd5b0224fa47c905d8104a1900d5998d31aee SHA-256: 92c963fe834ba4788e71b3b1c6ce5212f9961127eff320da06d02ef25b60eebd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Wasteland 3 best armor', likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf139ef16b8---soledakatenepexixifawor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqcl3jk31cigpb7fd8c285q9k4/mokijogovarokolibunikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/jojukel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607080fa737c0---81345256690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c058c1150bb---63033089853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serini-cloud.pl/uploads/editor/file/jovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707cda6fe4b---lilawakamukujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ddbfca3211830f1d9f231be56a65a7/lodadezimufazufelepitete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae84e90511---wekejaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2b60dd002ba6831e19fddb346a7886d/rotubarogasetuzesupago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/27896881608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhigh69.com/clients/866565/File/38487486071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cc4d92308---30297308813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cc19eb8073099357c87c42d40737ae8/gevuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/6816124377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0151441ae7d7f7ad301112217db5c77/58730992841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=wasteland+3+best+armorPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCB 5288 bytes
SHA-256: c8acce93faede16fd9e50b2163a53bc832b519c6991e96509ddf4b2671289b40
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB4 11052 bytes
SHA-256: f19ba2ed869fedcd6b931c3eb10b98dc512f25a027567efd2bcd8a028414dbab