Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a92708a57c761196…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:32:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ade34efc36f5e11e30d85167ebf52a51 SHA-1: 84998326a367824146047d122c26158e6ada5807 SHA-256: a92708a57c76119685a834a3a7549d52c47d01baf1bfd12248717d5348f8f0f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous PDFs hosted on compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c058a427bc7---53670135968.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/47608077791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/86106108652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/54750696200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/86446851398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/37141499005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/60144225323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drisraadentalcenter.com/userfiles/file/20802408865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/67405037228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/kijikusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggouuuij6c6cpgkqofu7ndb9tp/xexagola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d68280ee73d577cd845569efc8ce7c17/duxuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0udsk0tkud8o2boe6of2me4eu/13181087066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6256383ab9---31868501724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/13515928138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/sufujaxubolenoxexeguzapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f6ece0e85---vekobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/xodivodoranubazavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/49221315215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/976v7d5cukme3nb10a5997l8j7/67018595821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac716530694087e766cb8535638b81db/87032308668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19ad3cb57e---63247267330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/38329854576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8f57ee4fd437d2e9ad1cc7b709ae2a/57767043301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=shivratri+broto+katha+in+bengali+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_off0000cf44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE756 19508 bytes
SHA-256: 2fb93a09965b15acc993d7abd59afd45831eae1badc527289a937dc4edbe0e12
font_02_sfnt_off00011a93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A93 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 10f66fac65a222bc536997184c392097274da92a512fe6f45bd7fd698734cfc7