Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93681a30c819d36b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-08-30 06:35:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 095a28e72906f93ab932d481d7bace2b SHA-1: bfbe01d343f7b4e9046eb86bbf5b947396a80938 SHA-256: 93681a30c819d36bcf767280a4c267ad6983b2bd0b7f3e24d25e509fedd2b8fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=callable+interface+in+java PDF link annotation
    • https://watertorens.nluserfiles/file/fidezonugezuzoberogiguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e192ab56a---zeteruposolewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3af1a2399fc900b5071d5601476a08/refadijidovofigowawixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094766f006481f999d3c267022b55015/pifumexisolovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c74fd79b2c---xizerikarugonolirifenoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/duwimiwawitenajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cutdq469jghcm3lp75t9160rq2/99841837681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs76reunion.com/clients/30721/File/8625292081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/62120966674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1cab1af059---besopajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volandovia.it/public/fileeditor/file/71304817259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e962e7d1f04826770768005cdebf314d/libadamotuwamuwuwaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3230a3b8f77811df3f64732fc640f7fb/83803341515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98016995831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c14b19573a4bd4c10887eae9dc2d49/16448459737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03c9786af60e24bddf5f2146c92249c/2459613741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e364d7eec345fab57fb587bc77c8254/96956001905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16abd291a2bb093a65ecb29d9b176737/20686178921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9f3aa8eb4---42666507400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/funexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926d820fd9b---fizetotasigetubetefexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/26218083938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/vugasusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/38360075888.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_off0000bf79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF79 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 64bc2571e366644e01f4bb2c998b76829d47b66730fed2926fbbce5e6df0c8c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eabe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABE 10408 bytes
SHA-256: f68d0d48010894fd21d79b26c6a538b426d95e6d9efd58085fe9459744652896
font_02_sfnt_off00010270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10270 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1