Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 933d075c042253c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:08:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d6fe3c425bb18f6a1fd12d9bddee15e5 SHA-1: c91b99d2134ae5d938138e5845fe4a625e55da7f SHA-256: 933d075c042253c05b866fdbd762628640e0831910ab28ce436b7322056c0766
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely leveraging PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=best+enchantments+for+a+pickaxe+in+minecraft PDF link annotation
    • http://vipnovini.bg/root/f/uploads/files/morufovexatilagenibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hauel1oce79khhv4e357fcl4o6/vozoguzotofufuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/digax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160993c37c18b7---44737669416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d546ef3ea0d6a7b7c37a4312bd34579f/66961191701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/zoxukajifafefekofobowojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c350e25d659---30280725597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2c0aca1692---1802941519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1834ef686---60600242961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/togezogusuvapililemeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbvciljvopmn4nd0286tj0gjl7/riwavesaxisaxozubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906501c0ed2---5883981557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/89563816618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab7575ec933634b61ee5fbf879c4346/91076681612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074511a2a509---xefisugewimunened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2aaf85c964---86648556197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e120b70dce3aaa8690b3eded62c5e7f6/58450185684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/nezedufewazigolitizupajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad0ec529e29---leden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b99ff9e333---8770437968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a404c0ad89a---pixugomejebapitawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liddellgaryfamily.com/clients/863293/File/piruzagusuvovokixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5g2aqt2g6m52fqembu731p73ca/gefagebizadisobuko.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_off00010a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A91 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 1f14c2d96d661dd41efac4879f06c76d39e52fa168a716c28ffb4a225c011b8f
font_01_sfnt_off00013a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A02 10948 bytes
SHA-256: dd9b0481f6072b25f1369307c5d555f01d2dee7a5f1bec4d9ccf886f0be55c2b
font_02_sfnt_off0001533c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1533C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1