Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93330055309f237a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-30 12:20:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 114fb20d2e72efeb6af56711c090b2d3 SHA-1: b3525df7fe2b2d649e8f3bd3aaf3b8302a63916b SHA-256: 93330055309f237ad490a8660af17b0d5aa6755a596bb502429f8450db752511
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size, image-heavy content, and embedded links. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nba+2k20+mobile+mod PDF link annotation
    • http://hyswimpool.com/userfiles/tuwozomojapowawutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341c620fdc5---87460109834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenflameenergy.com/userfiles/file/pupaxatapilali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23517930292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/wotowazelukoditabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/61379763844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/54329614677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hockeymro.ca/docs/file/94662798439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.c-zentrix.com/ALCC/mail_attachments/multitenant-ws-01/1/1630680579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148157c503f9---wumaritu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongin.humenia.com/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210929085045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148706dcc84f---jifobivegubevenitirabaxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/10097696100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/mixazuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/42252413127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kizkulesikizogrenciyurdu.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/zufaxizosorezijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bacf104053e5ba00cf80f4dbaf2f0108/62570802453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/74238309032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chafewyuok.handysociality.com/upload/files/98206393919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-baby.ru/userfiles/file/48455797206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150296ce256d---vizusizuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614425b794521---zaxekuxisovakupiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adidravidar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24804957209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48620742765.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_off0000b2fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2FA 13824 bytes
SHA-256: 310217bdfa200e91de762033e896ac6d9a542ecfd1617e431597e1e49daf3f30
font_01_sfnt_off0000d56a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56A 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 0ec4326d8d918195a4b70703ee77c4d7ff7f032074be36703815997a4a0cd602
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1