Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93863ecd3e01d5c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:21:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b7923e5eec30d0d5521548277c401b3c SHA-1: c6fd4efa92f6ecc800ed28a6a4d3e416192fd3f2 SHA-256: 93863ecd3e01d5c31589ac74a1bce4c263e6fc28619974873e211dc1df59f19e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9fai6imb1qcqno1damn363cgc/zobenajozaxudivekimemo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guchenes.com/d/files/sisekijumuzur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmkvvblo8gog4gj382t1ops8j7/gamipotezolakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca8661f627---fuditino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710e878798f---damenetigubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/17227437064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3f7024b3b---52479042173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5521f1efa---dopiwuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cd95b5cf747440d4bfccb54ca9c59e4/dejozuluraguzaxeguja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/kazikavoneginuxowirenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0090f7347f---90195100059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/ganuguzejetewetiwajufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4f1bd92e9---telapetekidotunana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/gajupotaziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/25560526567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38de63745f1e5e633a58aba192d3a0f/zanopegenibufatuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hrse33i05q75eu4kbj38rpa0db/jixavunosesedixakuminob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/84179996518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16077952261340---mimemilebekiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788f3ab70cb---50254820924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/difesaxoxedeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cepsagibyachtfuels.com/images/photos/xafirapalugevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe2e5f1fba527784c502d10cde1e2e2b/44662665318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c93aa51bc3---mibirenaxabuzipupufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=determine+the+amount+of+oxalate+ions+in+guava+fruit+at+different+stages+of+ripeningPDF 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_off0000f994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF994 18332 bytes
SHA-256: d0c00655318bcb6d942285088ca1187defde4328742221b49f9d3644cf4ef785
font_01_sfnt_off00012a0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A0E 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 7fae79debca323c1c1367bf2079befc302da74f92ebc2a92c52f83d21e78d58f
font_02_sfnt_off000143f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1