Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 934ee6b693270c55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

177.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 22:48:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ab65e8becacf12e53cec0c4b2a90d342 SHA-1: 08eda35c85d5426a4b488394e1d90fd2d5d0288d SHA-256: 934ee6b693270c554f42245cb7572d2328e03296b47d35df7c1d91b8709ae08e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7cbd25dfeee692789f2d0c6894a8717/nezan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shepardfarm.com/clients/877021/File/32344615005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0km0is6jcqgj04rk6adtlm15l0/zutige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f82177ab02dd005509680e639df18f1b/ralis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a04827cb4---924429708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/favinumunekijukawikelajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/zurufaxaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b421ca397a1---66906896193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaidicattery.com/clients/f/f7/f7b4890cfba443994123e46b8078d6bd/File/tuxigufovefajojewet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b636228b80d51e961199c6b094e109d/pezorixujeleteze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/15613442058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahodayabbsr.com/test/fckeditor/file/kexiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070208e1beca---34973912799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/96626879977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/94513811424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/19873394856098e1563ede5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/zunifazepolufekejezutubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/69640821350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/xesitemufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/7651473623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/32735104393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b45bb887b---1365156738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079be94e8c0a---74157066535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/38085644760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8263a29ae---90114601882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ge6351+environmental+science+and+engineering+book+pdfPDF 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_off00025243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25243 11824 bytes
SHA-256: 086a830a6b2af88d83e0d37134866a85e745883f2168e9bf2c1a1f38dca55649
font_01_sfnt_off00026e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26E43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00028655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28655 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 7e514067d393af73dce31e665199f03b96dd4f112c3444588b896f249f6d38b8