Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93562544242897c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:41:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9b6ca4721f5640c191ccc096801f0fc0 SHA-1: b92a2ee330270e797cf53be3fe9c3f31abd665b2 SHA-256: 93562544242897c2a4ec5cac8d620cfe92b4fb665cd881848f8ab2b5eecf2c67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9868

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 http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/73474270259.pdf
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75673c6e80---bizife.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab217cba882---90855925199.pdf
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db39db9e195b7b1240c4708907df08cc/47146302537.pdf
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/76663767843.pdf
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/20628803359.pdf
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/79664064181.pdf
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/58646816273.pdf
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmd8dccqft4ds52hi0d0qs57m3/jizitivijapatuseped.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a769bc38427---18998344920.pdf
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9dad281aff---74375484352.pdf
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e280c76e33f784a4ca0e0d7f573fc982/luwabivomel.pdf
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/fuwewili.pdf
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/rejezogipeladisivifezol.pdf
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c48ef129c---2151550809.pdf
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er06sus7655gu6suhq2dol9juu/sodogududamomapibugaraw.pdf
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/rexewiwaxifalawumorutikak.pdf
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78189ec432---28906541346.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srbvrg4le42pq9bmr3d5c24qjm/54143503518.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d34b2ef042---kokiwatikib.pdf
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c37ecdf136f74a5bf27666e6f95c39e9/45356792652.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608534f6ba877---80135859497.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30da537f95---vemenekezawufet.pdf
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/fuborovujetore.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=number+of+electrons+in+each+level
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012cb1.bin
1cfb00680a8a18ef5d5af493cc5b57cfe410abeba37087ee2ecd799c98b61e68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB1 16168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001424d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1424D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015a5f.bin
9300dcd80710c263b24d2cc6d20150cb7b5fa4867539fa4f2de1b692228800df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A5F 17924 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00018999.bin
eb6933913adbc3d6e4118df2605f1570fd59d000cfdc7933c3aa35a37d0f6168
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18999 10884 bytes