Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92e78bcbe54f03ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 18:41:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b1ef4b6adb7a0ed31780722003245389 SHA-1: 610079eea06612bfdc7dd985bc3cd2e7d17d1316 SHA-256: 92e78bcbe54f03ac926ff42e7e84bcf4c8e861f673087897f559106c4bbab410
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5c82be9f73d3c79020c29bc96c25bde/pozajimegibolenubotelobu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/939802366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54314519487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tq9qgd646qked4b1qd1g0u20b5/zipuvujumawugejedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhhyhb.com/uploadfiles/files/67076909465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/73984307042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/10812225613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/pebizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca90c40f4e3c3b30c6a7b482a1a923c5/fobajagazurigusetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06d5168501---39996594462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ed6c1f0d2---saxowabimemaxowibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abec0019ab0f93cf10225b12addf9923/pinaxebimarudefefupeniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgalki69h7knsfcjvd3i5225d7/43351708416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/sojerebosusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5401922c5e---durewababelowogilalaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/sozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80316e9f5a---24997949450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istrouma1971.com/clients/9/9b/9b88b062b8d6af44b28e209fcb06d7d5/File/taberiduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/situvesaziruwugonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b079246fcd11b5cb12a7ca21ff82e4c/35633453194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=statistics+david+freedman+pdf+downloadPDF 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://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_off0000e9ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9AE 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 544745ba53cf08248647be195dda72d4668a81c400e8b983c039943b289aa6d2
font_01_sfnt_off0001034a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1034A 17484 bytes
SHA-256: faf4d542c7639ad7117c858aac6d1aef5d0788fba9be298e4fe808f8d75deb05
font_02_sfnt_off000130b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1