Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93413f40a146b2b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-06-17 07:12:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1fa65c2d34023618fe88c15fdb3f96c9 SHA-1: 669fb7af7354b8232d44ef80f085cd42c2b95d63 SHA-256: 93413f40a146b2b5f801af5dbc5f89b24fb52e7d63dabba975c542edb9f0afe5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to song downloads, likely a lure to trick users into downloading the malicious file hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lil+wayne+tie+my+hands+mp3+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5462ed419e---97459461194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a497dc3c6---xiduxavuzexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ba35d725e---komigekujunezepebeguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab1be7148f---lotapakikeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/xaneret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tcm5b9k706npac8qqhbdh8tfcf/zetozevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/79394228969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/kipuxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df901d41e24dde94aa6b242051152f0a/1236043323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949c8e386c5---59822676606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1q4nvkhhmgsrpq5rop6006neq/mumadokerimuzofovose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f71b9ec39---zekosuveraxobevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74397e387d---37195584114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ehrbs479u7sb4jkrtous3enrn/46819013735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lqrq41ebo06u1f9bu4mf5ogl2/nedapimefegukamufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47f96ceb87271dcbd960cd95020c4741/vaxavimoxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e2f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F5 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd9b4cf6c511db40d9413b4794ad51480352f41680095f6f1940db21ab49974
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E5 14504 bytes
SHA-256: 571ef3e0d86d33b5d94c5f4eb71bebe4311ed6b13b0511bfa8764a58ba074fc0
font_02_sfnt_off00012293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12293 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 00af08594c894612f8d0d50e46f506244118fae33b12baa35acd500101eee8bd