Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 091139e93519c53a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 18:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: cc695ae170bafe704ac11033d5da42c3 SHA-1: ea7c4c554833fc406bd4a93fb9501fb1c309b305 SHA-256: 091139e93519c53a2146bacc0da9ac7412ae776fb63b2f104d6bdaae8e7338f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish users or redirect them to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics reveal.

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 http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210524023412.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/furerimalasereba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/47897796432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc5a088c8a---saloxuzelezopefogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsportedinburgh.org/userfiles/files/zalotapesowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1624a04a2---koparebogiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d71087095---jidogute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/vagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de91e005083---35432835748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca3a5b12c90---tadopuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b520fa70655---80659057874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0a99e882---wiwowasidoxofezarux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yz-yongzhong.com/upfiles/editor/files/33519946223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c7358501a32ec30c116c86efeecd4f/latajutaperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/89018128575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5102ee6e20e346de76a0c24020db1f2/61726004376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/37132368218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t8g0919km8q3fbg7d2m01kqb0/famakanibosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kad18uusfjne4o4mm5tp83sgjt/76143181003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e35a99b1c669fff71c016a57fd1a95c/72355622530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210610_231318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ea8e803ecc1228f68aee2f20ddbb8d/97906897825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/57953545556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555b0c6bbc6f0e02cbc8597c2dad296a/95655834631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99bjqhl0e225puvcq5econukp4/pufakufideziluwulexexemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=chicago+style+websitePDF 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_off0000eda0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA0 17412 bytes
SHA-256: b569737f6fd906e5afb55a2642b091c6c191822a7289c2d282288ac9de4e14b3
font_01_sfnt_off00011b50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B50 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 472f28730a8ffce45e53dad2be39a03c8a6bd2341926b203246bc67bbfdf5537
font_02_sfnt_off00013417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13417 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1