Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f92869392bab445c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 21:41:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 299325130a12f198c27bfacd274982ef SHA-1: b104a2b4a368d6392f0e30933c19ee135e588e9e SHA-256: f92869392bab445c764c0d890787fbf6f96be9d11a481359e6b9820a7338298d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting its primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI links and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=friends+a+love+story PDF link annotation
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcbea99e4b---72488842995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfbssmvi0mrt10eq3tpq04s3gl/potikiruginogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15ad2792ac5d31fba8b067f3feae2d15/66929354240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8220635068---83590990214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/759a75f57cc7ecbcf71082ba942b9d95/sonabunifixagabixibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/29066215619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d07163f667---87884246516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zcapitalcrm.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/92815282827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da2399a980c---43368773904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606de7bc9ce28---sibexazepopiwizosopimemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/resuwokame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608faab545020---8702038361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b620db5c1---707139658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/36197428389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b362ba6e530---nawavijigejevura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn7esti8cuecdl8k2vpemf90r6/17239279219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/634ec3db6b5947d46fc031f4bd45ac86/38818413669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/faxikiribokaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821ee57cd76---62021091632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/27689278493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/rofiladepajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be283c3c4c5---78099870987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c159ea064fd248c5707fbdf75e1f6a2/rokelaxosovitiwuvikugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomclarkvoiceovers.com/userfiles/files/jutagadugebabe.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_off0000fedd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDD 10396 bytes
SHA-256: a8398d86c480cc42e1d41a7937e48cacc24ce959ef9ca3724a3bee4c772d3181
font_01_sfnt_off00011683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11683 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E95 16252 bytes
SHA-256: 0a84f089340fce639e038470c23c4e97557ae26edcd36e3badd4186089a4a472