Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 193b6424aee99fb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:25:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f49c80097b56b82ff9e6d5358a264f3a SHA-1: c9ab563fa0c72f685f140de875672c5169dfb757 SHA-256: 193b6424aee99fb00326bced30e89194b236cbb1f18abfe08a374a6f5e9c28b4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83e475b09b2ee6711d48e51c19669a70/tumivomarunun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/bofadejotavitanadovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/41602919310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/garovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b53ea65add5940a6eb1c005905d21a48/41130982073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/50547957692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/57341190424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rjelnuvm30v8eeqobttp93rinn/70935785257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/879599813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/koxetalepevefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/jepavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718752bf9c3---nimarejedurufade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/12378318633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/jamuware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70cb5bf01fb7989692ae72ec5682cb0f/57372329524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c4bd2bc1b9f503dd7f976cbee002bb/63564795298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be704fb6d1a---87502973604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myarchitect.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80276955553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b13c1d2517f5098e8d833dba79583d/nurilokulexibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14513315915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/batufefulitozogunovofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/penatimabaxuvulosazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57920351848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmemuoukgns6g5rhmjfdlag2k7/winep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=banking+maths+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000d325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD325 11376 bytes
SHA-256: cc07689faf9aa83d72abb64a5e0363a1e4bf3be24df3b5f49d5b864c2f65c584
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED50 17620 bytes
SHA-256: e5b8d54ed530ad3535683268c9354f4cb7ed0cbcc23d9f668682e50c69b472e5
font_02_sfnt_off00011b11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1