Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb92bf90e6f7d5a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 86471f6ccf33e81f2237530173c982ae SHA-1: 2a24dffb4398377898b1ed9bac89706648857317 SHA-256: bb92bf90e6f7d5a9192696627ef4c90f1f342af391c926d035f2d49ced294ee0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://tzsunup.com/upload/38119937871.pdf
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katigapojimokimalazin.pdf
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/komarokoxobivesik.pdf
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents/files/51040179064.pdf
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210908145710.pdf
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents/files/23188435565.pdf
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/34481887308.pdf
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/bupemasugenerufafifaf.pdf
    • http://rtm-plus.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masujowogusax.pdf
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/22777606579.pdf
    • http://bharatandcompany.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sases.pdf
    • http://bonezi.morefriendship.com/upload/files/lanixarurimorituvan.pdf
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/lakatit.pdf
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/wonaxazisibujaf.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613afa33e82ef---48790371455.pdf
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omv0u8h3196leu02l8rhtj4tgm/81621066430.pdf
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/49045783567.pdf
    • https://bdprescription.com/ci/userfiles/files/53963673069.pdf
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848c5dbc1d4f002210450a88b12c46b6/tiselan.pdf
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/15920256269.pdf
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/64374203911.pdf
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/20219101325174064.pdf
    • https://www.truck-transport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65981329647.pdf
    • http://xhiehchin.com/Xhieh_News/_file/65232794793.pdf
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/43454959254.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=1000+gk+questions+and+answers+in+english+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6e1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fef8.bin
2b92716f4368791ca27bd12648899e8032ca915b228e8dd133898be606823031
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF8 11280 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000118f2.bin
27b9fbc110e0e86b759c2f1351576321f64b4b321e43b6455a4527d827e2679b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F2 17436 bytes