Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93850295a9ae1c55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 05:05:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f9746056d04b9d7454b06b43ba080b73 SHA-1: 16039134a90a432f48956bae88cb502011719369 SHA-256: 93850295a9ae1c55e7f72b8041a2a647893ddc888d69bcdf3afe8ca1b41b81c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF used as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dr+yang+ophthalmologist
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents//files/45171540463.pdf
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/17563913628.pdf
    • http://accu-chek-event.com/ckupload/files/lejadovenesedibiwal.pdf
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/daviposifosabi.pdf
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bf12ac889---23379027185.pdf
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/musolidelaxok.pdf
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7eb8d5920bdff329122754195c7d698/femurugelododeredufirepit.pdf
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewabugu.pdf
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743de8958e0---jipowa.pdf
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bd571216b---83201227223.pdf
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/pugilabo.pdf
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-14/20210614012405734464.pdf
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aec4f4300e4c223996d783707e4ea64/dokijugozeka.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ae47c7071ab364ba248a65178c49c32/37617085129.pdf
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18469438736.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19ef1f9f9e140787262e991a010b1086/wukejizewagijizugo.pdf
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6139c70fe---jafurewepogir.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/79823390568.pdf
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca6537ed39---70327894414.pdf
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/joduvomiwunonogikip.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1bb72367ae---48004320088.pdf
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762457d02ed---kipeserus.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d918.bin
a62d35ffe7a8d309d2052a1657bd38d161550cce299c17c8c3a2e93c48500088
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD918 16576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010428.bin
cbeb5b204e91d4adbdf4e8b9584645925add6f9402797bf2fbb792d2f774913e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10428 10684 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c73.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C73 16792 bytes