Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92fab118d14eafee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-06-14 08:41:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 9da7645a0e2e81494669750612ccb4d0 SHA-1: 146028d17dc2db0fe68610f3a007e0ed5cb0e70a SHA-256: 92fab118d14eafeeccf2eabcd083ef10909199cd78c121f9e731c054c360b2eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to sites hosting malware or phishing content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exercice+atomistique+corrig%25C3%25A9+pdf+s1 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085829fc78de---93743748314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d422fc5d37---xemudepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607036a089d10---30599454086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64337f0b7023c090aa95f8ea38f83806/48635011003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750a2bc07267d02b1747813cd1a657a7/65771367029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20517bbb01---82173682961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc053951c1---57249981659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6858d3474f6abb8eb32c04a6b6ee830a/65858692497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8i09nldbckmkjb2i69lb3nddl0/45360782675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202104282304051148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41f8d51554518e8ae6ea31b3ca7a1286/gumanolizaxeralete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608194fe2480c---zoxawujodozidagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a10cee72623227534fb5f1610dd173ed/12076505500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/22825303348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0e9ae5c6864227be95d2512bbd10fc/kajiloxedokedifoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/75140541311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13b4dea226---90485760488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdm0d2d86ep2vom7qsl8lm9ena/97910592402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000df77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF77 5788 bytes
SHA-256: 0bfcc6f98dac57a9c2ac27196992ebf38038235e49996e641b2d60ded561ef75
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DF 11472 bytes
SHA-256: 74fe216348a6ba93e3ad00c347af4c0f4c5ca22386d5af26c5f531085fd99a86
font_02_sfnt_off0001182f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1182F 16164 bytes
SHA-256: d781c508aaf473e50263a6aabc3f4161b7fa10724c54bb8d35addee38a7f1c44