Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 593ff6a92b05aed1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-28 03:41:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 78dc7e9688903e7b36af9393ee552109 SHA-1: 2949417aef80fec2b1b78543149ac9698542a337 SHA-256: 593ff6a92b05aed172f7343149da3da3710e1dd9c2e3f16c7b09d43499f60a4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier returned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and compromised upload links strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d22f988912d34edc5c9b53054cd59d4d/xapojinatevoler.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/luvasefenewukisukewew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/zaxino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16226867681900465769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfk81ofa5ivnb5mip7vff80ak1/11255905116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtebc23eooqjfvmjt3dmd67e8b/litewasakozuzigunikiloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/wutodajixiseji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f73547a2e---18467377526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae47e842f35---logozirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/22926822643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olversonfamilyreunion.org/clients/5/51/51a48c89da211807e19ed56f8a1a1822/File/95776576109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be51705d102---7407230541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d0a09f86e---94999982619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/50794527071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/62520941994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e3d060ef4---94384290853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f64fb7703---36923450288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.com/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/85243058822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9d9410539---kefutisefoleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfa52822a533ce3ed865b32bbf1209f3/88705096998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/56731522474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6a6245093846eb66fd17c243b343db7/fesusosugoporogited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/22394759665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/zafiranaxoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87e22d983d---32958515597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=bajirao+mastani+full+hd+movie+download+1080pPDF 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_off0000e193.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE193 11580 bytes
SHA-256: 16933dbc26b9f8c30337bdb82fd66354c4de2c0957cb3fc6def6180da061dda2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11505 16876 bytes
SHA-256: b18136951fc40313af36d290b570791e39e3f58ab1d5f2ed3e6fdd542d0a9ac5