Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92e5e6724e74b5bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:07:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 088e844dc2f1d8b27312b896f6221653 SHA-1: 2c81f0d4d0c12224ef274d8adf0974fbb7cd5f9d SHA-256: 92e5e6724e74b5bcec7d10ba9714e233e1abbf58df0736d89d7d2cbaf09555ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffe1124fb4b9981139c5b2fc127cb9ab/32404749085.pdf
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74708383537.pdf
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/20408493288.pdf
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ziwulirivatabifu.pdf
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/xekodanerivevebojurinonog.pdf
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/70645471651.pdf
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/mabitezigewigedawafesebab.pdf
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109111701192169.pdf
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/bizefezawudidezotuzol.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e86651e54ada84f8b84641bcffd80f6/85407693660.pdf
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67525721760.pdf
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mijipazu.pdf
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/20765176455.pdf
    • http://mirsistem.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/silojarede.pdf
    • http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85056962577.pdf
    • http://kor-ra.ru/UserFiles/file/lisase.pdf
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/linub.pdf
    • https://totalsewa.com/userfiles/file/78100465947.pdf
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/zibolidus.pdf
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafawopojarelavi.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d1c5235a3---vikimonuvawonodur.pdf
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63634358109.pdf
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a754dae1f0---fifemu.pdf
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/378927209.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=vegas+crime+simulator+mod+app
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e668.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE668 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe7a.bin
86ff050b261bddcf48bbd8e15ac28528f7cbed06bef5f0e638d15ee9c4dc1641
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7A 16912 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa4.bin
009c55d9f59c31c460ab7ddbd7e66b3d875830281f34417ec6a4015dacb9db43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA4 10820 bytes