Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93321560b188b621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bc457a624030785f58dc9dc43d260880 SHA-1: ee5ed663b4324e080b16e47e789449f73ac34bd2 SHA-256: 93321560b188b6217b5e0b3bfaa31a112770e1a49b831207326e92d1c0942426
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads, suggests a tactic to obscure the true destination or leverage existing vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d971a699aa6941c029eaaddfb2f376f9/92461841322.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teputedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40aee1597951d5242f18fadc0d7aa2ef/bomunudujosidafotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rudazuwuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terhautz.com/upload_files/files/18075105906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p2abqdl34t3d2m6qm8cie7lbf/wemizogejadasukotemuziroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66a214cd96---24984506885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/47592936432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088041a691e1---wekiziboja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4r862v8lt2408chgu5lgkvm8/82441905554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/xapifaletepufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maria-galland.ru/files/file/jidolejeboliwaboxigezibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/besas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/jejinojufatipizozigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210531_230125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/70321718599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6648a57b37---memuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee2dfd45536---tuvasiwekux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8a3091e11---fufaroditig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/48049620059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.com/contents//files/wesavaronagalezuzasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/boruxesomadarim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/75707469814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=gulf+times+qatar+pdf+archivePDF 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_off0000be7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD693 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 3064c83f301121c4274fe9c6e1f21777a470361572bc25ce397033461d5a3bad
font_02_sfnt_off0000effd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFD 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 2a916d46563c57f430c766449714de535daf04d17ef84cdfca34943b4d36777d