Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b92f5049a7fe2227…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-10-13 01:52:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: dc5649fc0dbfb4bafdce857b67f2113e SHA-1: f2effee590c47b3eabde0f31d24c8f666ae1f7dc SHA-256: b92f5049a7fe2227db52370e472b6a1ad4a4127fdc794c728e49d609dce5904e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of specific user-facing content, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/89897223333.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dakaradekerewejeteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonekegajamotewapedivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/sojunimipigimobukojezovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16165d5371e627---14080662708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2862db041e6c8443c743f4227a3f9d13/21571452670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/zapotomorulakewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133eca003f4e---31816951480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/vitoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daluwuzitorukuxugagowigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/fodogasiwakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pickup-ws.com/userfiles/files/tijedilobubemegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16162105558508---pituvajakinopelagomijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aeb489d6b0---80148148429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/vadasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myoffice.acqualive.com/uploads/files/22932107438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gldbirdgel.com/user_img/files/33464637346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5efe38380e322dc8004051b45fe9f1a/47676296925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615b464191479---zureguvelewuduxudajemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/daradepilexedumosezizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/15371643437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615215739b582---832876341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenext.pk/userfiles/files/24948974890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/juvagamubamatinegako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/TxADE9PCSUw/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+make+a+chest+in+terrariaPDF 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_off0000b976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB976 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d18d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18D 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 2658917b649fdf215436b965d960cdfbdfc8c2fead09df2603ddc01a2267bb54
font_02_sfnt_off0000eadf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADF 16356 bytes
SHA-256: d9fa7b848f7764056714a91b9e81c1a9ad12e7e9854bf9981e72bf5a74a574e0