Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92eefc9e2e05767f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 21:50:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f14d2629e171066af05bb303552d1e4d SHA-1: 3fb9ecb046ffafe49f0a367a00424c36267b8b05 SHA-256: 92eefc9e2e05767f9e318169cc1becbb769f41f9527bed5534c2a608e35d5770
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or lead users to a phishing page. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL reputation firings are sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pe95a412f1pi5erjuclab3ukt5/dasejazapog.pdf
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/kodusetire.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092468d1ef34.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bcb7714fc---6138065242.pdf
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7497d3a48eb10626aa401270e720d2/wobipagafu.pdf
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/49006657911.pdf
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1285a5e1e---48045055983.pdf
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/zijopup.pdf
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/jamalolisaxodiridu.pdf
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/lelavakedixatatukagij.pdf
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaee30a11bd6613e44b8706ce9ab4a2b/76830217643.pdf
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/ledinonude.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ad8cb4ef6---viwaxabo.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb3aa17c777ea051e23f4d267b057d5c/pokitizekoxizolotiz.pdf
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/taxagixegamev.pdf
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/vumadog.pdf
    • http://desagresbrts.com/clients/34568/File/43731496244.pdf
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/45115846082.pdf
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/33467812678.pdf
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/34130722141.pdf
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/28897833946.pdf
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5fddb8177---40306036373.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/83569189867.pdf
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///71979198482.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=moving+and+handling+meaning
    • 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_off0000ecfe.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010515.bin
8746d2d993fad04507c2bf4c6bb53c7dcc5d6a0981585f6a62064e3288f43850
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10515 10388 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c24.bin
9d764f06889e2ad3536087377a23e953134a294fed4fcb96a5742079d5203bee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C24 18012 bytes