Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92f866b732a66997…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:22:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a77b5c955dbbf4c9aa13a9638555dd4e SHA-1: 55f00ba63bdbfa064ef3475f4b5b5332511de79c SHA-256: 92f866b732a66997cc5223a4786efc32abf8857b4a654335d18f4ffa08cf856a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on a compromised WordPress site, with numerous distinct hosts, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external, potentially compromised, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cbfc3e7d5312aeaf0ffb7acae6aa695/79511279974.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://schubert-hh.de/image/file/sopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/17720946600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn7ejg86d5miu769t9d4eq34fa/fijolekapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f00682640---38340857389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/neladuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06c6587aa76c78a6e5078b2c658de91b/kewotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fa8a285e4---wukusixetasovofinabos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a02fa7d6e1---xoratokonorizejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1bfc8bb916---91306663780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2acbairqmbhesfo6nbvkd3gh6/70381167813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/86683998034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098432a073b5---kebobuninedejakopumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/rejelijurigebelulub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1961920d1fb8f038ac2e2efd22d7c288/fatiwujakalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61843282366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210613101146_1998396196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/tibitazajewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a064e2ce5be2a633c8b23096b86792d/tolizibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110198f54e0f---76406221538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/96020976256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d408e0e16f---tobemudumovaxurudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=grammar+exercises+simple+tenses+pdfPDF 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_off0000d2fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2FC 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 5070fde402829d2f8e1d039f7318eaa7cff63207cec34751b7cc1a0ae1fbf6b0
font_01_sfnt_off00010262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10262 10800 bytes
SHA-256: ca0b0021db1436db83b883e8f009086dd7e889f30cb5295bc9ca83f4d6750c38
font_02_sfnt_off00011b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1