Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e92903c071cd9233…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-10-05 13:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: e72de3ffb0fe7cbc74c18aa7c70c63e2 SHA-1: d384bc49daf00e865a8b0d66c1a86b4842078d91 SHA-256: e92903c071cd92333548df1c46b8da84ec2ca31fceaead4cd1fa85dcfde188d3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. Heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further payloads or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://4wheelchile.cl/admin/uploads/file/fuxabidanu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/11788928602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/5627770600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongzzang.com/userfiles/file///42283110281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevimotor-rock.hu/files/files/19710197385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiofruits.com/admin/uploads/files/38760852295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbugkd96amo0jia9sdceusde72/65972085364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bold-iot.com/uploads/files/202109202124236389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/37190328948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/19284651048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/15861893417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/98191921458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motodubai.com/uploaded_images/files/masul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrarental.org/upload/file/dozunozali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spadhotel.com/basefile/spadhotelcom/files/53827791845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/gowakebusuxolaxenatewebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8865048315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneiro-sa.pnh.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56636725184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614990015ff5b---74159942551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615c196b43ec1---lamuwajusivozatuburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-n-s.net/userfiles/file/67634382668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d281233c4167a76ea694fdac49fbd33/sinaxudukubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/7966110968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=divide+one+pdf+page+into+twoPDF 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_off0000e6d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000feeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEEB 10512 bytes
SHA-256: f1bc332fd35fdd813b7ce1748ca78dd1dfc3fac6b61539d211a20a2e8306b6c7
font_02_sfnt_off000116d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D0 18968 bytes
SHA-256: 3b345fa3c277a724fe9f395462bd36c0b387713614f5c459ac02061d8588ba13