Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f92028bc9820c54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-27 16:49:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2031020f76daaaa3e8050b3cbdbc0472 SHA-1: 5900da82209d7c02fdb92507bf2d16d4e4240094 SHA-256: 9f92028bc9820c5492f12ed248a8a3e2a609ecb9b99306429f17af6b4ee1c303
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or exploit kits. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609192cc75061---bexugutasujexaze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bcd47442a---2729307116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interface-graphique.com/upload/editor/file/70183432344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2840dcfdef371560d0a13050731dbbf0/32806404687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92d14284a50ae5ab817222850a229832/murulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609897db3c1ad---58592733376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19589416302883e6cc2d40365b069f65/wekesofeloriko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimuvofoxizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e722c4c57349ab23a22ed73b266a3bc2/39937926097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zozutajelotowamofaweziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ffaaae4fd---66375414799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce891e581ac---11700792504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekon.net/userfiles/file/fiziguzawopedidita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents//files/1276334803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9ec1e4854---1435900385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/mukuzezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/78410600088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moestuinwebshop.nl/userfiles/file/nikexadixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03ecdf2d31---74140727014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210615_8809823AE3C7B458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f211bd5d87---fazagajilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a368b8048f---76834833485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cee0754f8d---20497386258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f6d9ead0b---sopulifonobalojarokorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=why+does+george+decide+to+kill+lenniePDF 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_off0000e9e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E0 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 27a5c9b2cd82b1932293ee98f5b642f7a1ead1f83da64b643209eb6f326421cb
font_01_sfnt_off0001021e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021E 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 8be5b6201a2f46ecd14e8e3d29641c1f6ccbd9bbf765ee8617362f2bc2d9fe6e
font_02_sfnt_off00012bc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1