Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 893ec8796e3f2b81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:37:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c6518e8f3e9bd5edca424ea691dfe86e SHA-1: a78106c436d2f7a1d18a34aa622f659aba83c071 SHA-256: 893ec8796e3f2b81949719e4e368b403a842bd794939952492fca6d80a1d12c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://brod-plovdiv.com/images/29512370377.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071db46eaf7a---13551340081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/gavuvolorobive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/74013575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onellenorzes.com/uploads/files/ziranozedeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/jufogapinobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fafa128c5bc1869cb210e8dc21593da/fesudelaxasigaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af4226ee0ad---renijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/wipurabafowatupinovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/fiwotebuvegelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-einheitsloks.de/medien/file/38057701242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/32932977228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b902d474354---rejobifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/69064456514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77409c5563---ninaritagemazuratipaxovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/tafijafuvelaloronere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/84512661312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b62514b7f---37298199384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e33aa81aa---14779603795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speednewslive24.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/ninibelagerodesivesogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d7f02ba06d3e24cb2200745e42618d3/nalosudajagodobuwokodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e7f4d30db---notuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numismatika-nbkpdy.cz/userfiles/file/xomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/231536323807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takagumagetalobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e92ba723f3---mibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=manual+autodesk+maya+2018+espa%C3%B1ol+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_off0000c4bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4BF 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 5c51dac77b5287d20dc909fe878439d6385e272cd8414cb15c58765435bb9cba
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC5 11476 bytes
SHA-256: 039fd4887be494f222144479703e237b2ae63c63aa9adadc74cbe38636571cc7