Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92de3b3e72299233…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-09 19:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 60a0d18d081cef08363df1b2e2b774f8 SHA-1: 727eb81c34d15bc0a51562b81454a17ad79f1c2a SHA-256: 92de3b3e7229923384a7f265dab6f806d5e10e51aa51b6db5ee8911c4b853b11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious files. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of numerous URLs associated with compromised CMS uploads strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+random+chat+apk
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986e7253e35---wenas.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3938a305627ec4ae1238cb8f67ac91f0/8098672355.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbec278f1a---mopizovoj.pdf
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/502ef3efefcffd68b81a23f0ef254b63/38316559229.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8c5657a29---pobozi.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18e44cacd3---zelimeralib.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813eec0d36e---gesasupub.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708d19d4a34---fogupifozopotogekurijeko.pdf
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/turigunegatuvo.pdf
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djf2jdi0tp683eimle0ngg5li5/80487446339.pdf
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98361e7038---45832431819.pdf
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608934f8710e2---zowiv.pdf
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1fa33a5f91---98300946620.pdf
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/tirivemuxomoj.pdf
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d96845128defa9dfb1a7585a76ba1e/dimetotegoti.pdf
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210609_F2049C434A6E3506.pdf
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607faa99524af---lenaxo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e79e.bin
a3ba49f1ce5e805a2428a28f9a2596c30cadfb8e4e5bae59ce79e396b3486b28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE79E 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f97f.bin
1f12465da99ec111d1883d45272103dd73565b500d422a9df15752f7f96d8bd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97F 4032 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010937.bin
a26ae60870ceabdfa18339f023f1be2c396f926a4481c12a0897439e0fd4e08d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10937 12176 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001316e.bin
2eb130d4e5b2f3249316d1a15538da43ff9ece0351eb59dfee50dc5803989e88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1316E 17104 bytes