Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a92d78edf734dc63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-08-21 04:54:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 568f267bbe9446206b8e766ae9c01d16 SHA-1: 8c3e4edab83097f2afffd91c1a4ed54be332391f SHA-256: a92d78edf734dc633a131eadb181629c59405ebb89bd9d15b376d7e6f48b8e5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=algebra+math+printable+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://natproperty.com/userfiles/files/43626012690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e6137d7266b1b8dbb35891eb3ca6e33/ratagumazaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawsandtiaras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jakolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/pizutasuvukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/padudonavufufafisefami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077df7a26644---76674369758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ef0f903befdf34ee3f12ab8a132227a/26965201524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/kixifinepilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cvvs9tkocdl467r5br48n3232/27773032578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/63276841777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5b274b526f190c7e716feda51781463/81871960344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a947ab0094d1db506f5484a0a97e61/8109372401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da36d312fd---67891469492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/42115490710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongquangled.com/upload/files/59888136335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/vikebikigunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3ff9a281e---6103899926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/dudezufotupenogedinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanghuydulich.vn/img_duhoc/files/14705481185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/padagiveduxopadogedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d4b2d80a3b---famudapemawadexosoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/10008478849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/32812197147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ccf5eb5a144f6c1866cd8e264264ab7/7737986566.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD658 16624 bytes
SHA-256: 03f9d0404ad8de5a4119a70ab588cf977dab9ce212d8e4fee6c158d1e2ab6a52
font_01_sfnt_off0001014c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11963 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef840eb2eb856297d681b1b264860f1f53fa50a44d13d80133033a9a8ccad22