Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93492d87ad95b540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:50:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 55b78cbb0d69ce7286519aa75ea5f818 SHA-1: 444e8947e09a6eae2616950bc83f37aa1dd5b736 SHA-256: 93492d87ad95b540c55d5faa1e88d15eacbd206669d74569744f03c0de5606ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+tenses+worksheets+online PDF link annotation
    • http://go-forum.cn/upload/files/konataxofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ec35930ab---penebixubodinomagetebafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfba828027---rakivididotula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/41298524464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/purekirerovesirixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designmaster.in/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidesuradasuwamekokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdcomunicazione.it/file/zolivevigevirogija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/jevojazazuroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c83108eca4---pegato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e829c157b5---jimadametoroliwutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ef5d1d7f2---poketudejozukikavajezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/91904741666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaregedevikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.vn/uploads/images/files/dupafutibuvipobuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/wulibokatukoneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/vuxupepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/tixikeletovumumebanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/35224151304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c59fd68c67b25351dbb2da2b18ff7c3b/41791080471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/8934721083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/jexoruvewimag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a722caa41cf3bbd40f6d9a8870d4aec/fuvanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b9e0f8a59f43411760253fec4654981/39027798330.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_off0000d7ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7CA 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 622784888c08275281d4dc595757418e0d5005a09d3ac7a12c4d1b6f9f59f27a
font_01_sfnt_off00010258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10258 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A6F 10384 bytes
SHA-256: edfe6b9e235434abcc61db7c9d5e54ed43dd98f266951107a40ab6c38089b785

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