Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a92a20fd0e828231…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 07:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c8bc564455d023e1e1dea1dfe5acaa4d SHA-1: 998bd99adead99081274b2e78bcd8f6b4bbf573d SHA-256: a92a20fd0e8282314e8450d1fcfc5fa7cf4f3c746a574b6bf37d9a9e0c990643
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely lead to further malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/denufuxediwodobax.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a002594d438c889fccda6a3bbab6f1fb/nidusafun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/od7g5qiunnsvldrj945cbbb416/robuxogatawegakepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gancza-yacht.pl/userfiles/file/bexezagebup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73524772893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65b4b83b68---fizimurafepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://george-dollie-nelson-mass-reunion.com/clients/3/33/33de80a6744892f7217a81a137582dad/File/konupisiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d11bcd084---zuwiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7db353856---10326226151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/48193865586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eis-pieschel.de/UserFiles/File/vefumikivaragiveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjtct83q2a0aut44phutjutsk5/vebisavokebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7nh239ipnvpfunovqqdiurpee/soguwinamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venafevamigexibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0cc526a837---66734273029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5662021b9---jokuxubutejojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styropapex.pl/userfiles/file/delex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/56995347232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/jiligakeruwitemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/94713784527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjmh1bm4jvnpm2r41mlf884pd0/22743394274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mednet.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/nerilumuxademarolivudepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/37102376226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=full+stop+and+commaPDF 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015c37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C37 10428 bytes
SHA-256: c0f2d41f0a6cad42e2a699630e0b0f7260ceb7492be5996131f06b5bb6695dba
font_01_sfnt_off000173de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173DE 16248 bytes
SHA-256: 6c7e1b754cf38ee70ad76cb780c90d71dc4ff6fc3e14eab78a91c98fc4406452
font_02_sfnt_off000189ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001a1c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A1C0 21688 bytes
SHA-256: dc4004279939b2f8dea7e1667f2093894d7611f419cbbbb86bbea0758ef077af