Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 593337b4080cb938…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:52:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a20a65740ba4254a18fd05bc4fd0ecc7 SHA-1: 2ef960041723e5502f60827321e0fd85a6e10ef8 SHA-256: 593337b4080cb938c134fca1c6ecedff3844044a13f0efe9dafa2247a293793f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with spearphishing attachments designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/posigidi.pdf
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/22182733456.pdf
    • http://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/67919175388.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faccffcf9c0---femebojimoxopotenemo.pdf
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9rp75j4h68itspkqqf6kcip6k/lufoxupimubugominoki.pdf
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60992de1ad8e8277a36a15ffad2b337/jatupasezujakakifon.pdf
    • http://cserepakcio.hu/xdata/file/potisiligubaxotulexelalof.pdf
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff7r0qcv245d403b3gljn8ip2/sokijo.pdf
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/wijatasiset.pdf
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da9c1c5483b---88722980397.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd1f7339a2f05bc611a21651cdb367d9/91757888775.pdf
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rufowedagapefo.pdf
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6985354f14---zupepufisawoz.pdf
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/niludepoferirakinezar.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b06311dc41---lotufetu.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74270ed89e---zefuzomometijosabafo.pdf
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/biloliwajulapebog.pdf
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54075872321.pdf
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ac2508e33cf12ee8e215637907f102c/borilibave.pdf
    • http://brnc85.com/clients/878796/File/xasowafedoxigakezoxat.pdf
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/kuxakuvutuluwibejodaxitum.pdf
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86665441071.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=telecharger+les+albums+de+tintin+en+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_off0001112a.bin
d31938b54cd0bd610167de3a791fed1b446db25be149429d2af4e40208ead927
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1112A 22748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014aed.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AED 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016304.bin
73a0ed0ded799b36bc44267596e0d1f27a7a93b4174df394624deea6f1061098
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16304 11152 bytes