Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93042d7696e30bc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 641c5a85b813a4968afe1a07726c696f SHA-1: 13e4043e03933771bbe5647f79671fe00ca1995c SHA-256: 93042d7696e30bc7d196acb2c14176437a73dcf4d99fc3ae96fc30fe60759794
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the document functioning as a link farm, with many external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting domains. The presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=las+pinas+pamplona+3+zip+code PDF link annotation
    • http://mgbig.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909235022540741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webkapper.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56838880782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lbn13e3l8ouesmellakp0s87v/xuluxexivibarowerivudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prospr.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dasuzojonikunenaduvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yibetter.com/data/files/rupulude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grotech.in/userfiles/file/kozolufibotapiwemobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/lexelozejozuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/pebipikagiwutedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.ir/images/upload/files/32563204943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbe1e36510---97687796821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3079c343e37a2eba751219089b7d6012/lovebewogiwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/file/90777679197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac9b781539---geruvoruxadubusajelapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///matuferozetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyshiying.com/d/files/naxuwosomojatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://encino.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/97975744700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifolarulabawepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindergartenhelden.at/upload/file/nepute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/kalegemivoribavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/fumazotetepofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/15681282374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/42521387356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/14649733892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ddcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCC 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 9a819b454bd205495bc5f1e92a090acbb4f0e33936b01d3a32b1c36a83f10d12
font_01_sfnt_off0000f640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF640 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E52 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 6c4f19d78614eacb6029f071c81f946f55f16a880559ea390e4df32487b549e7