Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b92090702acf9621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:14:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e1b3bb84dc46a8589abee10397128cc1 SHA-1: f94c9ba0773cb6b0fb7518c61fc421d0dd1ed356 SHA-256: b92090702acf9621c9968f9d64806c8c69853500841c970d57f621f6c181d814
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates a potential phishing or SEO poisoning campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=win+7+extreme+loader PDF link annotation
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a467348c53a---77679870914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67082786918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d4970edd1---biwufogira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7778cab7f563cbb2124472cbf5ec4f0/lemopatori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb80a35130c---11635383079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d99943e8b06fe794057ee60a886ee9de/daxabipipudav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/gatadefemofepivuzege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/61079481727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/guzizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/ketezugilugasokamibale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d844fdcb431a36f498f084b8aab807b/95615674593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a6e764b5f212e46e5ccdea053cb8a2a/sarimazekolibuxexonereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/885a322917331be9c2a61fb79cec7b77/34970568387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd4966df79---42453831361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/nojiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31ac654a6b568fb5cc68b0f245cbd605/63429007283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4a5de90641ff497a682f3dcb7dd7340/mavobagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/92598973327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833dc4aa2c9---sesixugumerunolugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/54575800983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d7623868bb7a40e68bebd1cdd84e97/jifijuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35jfa8uk5ijudktq4el1sa6r5g/45324783246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/39581755814.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_off0000e32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB46 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 75b120beddf6e997a24cd4313ed6ecd7890f95e72f207a39157a10d6a0a9ee87
font_02_sfnt_off000112c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C8 23232 bytes
SHA-256: eaade33b7e47c277b3177378e5ab24338ddcd40f5289f85afd12fda55c1e031a