Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93ad15be7c7dfa5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:45:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4a468309a6b9bfaffb3828e5f58e636e SHA-1: 3b4173164c78776f4585dde7e047b2cd6018083d SHA-256: 93ad15be7c7dfa5a25523c9224349393697c2ab3947ab31e3b1fec07dccdfb44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URLs are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2264a3d75---35701891614.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694f2020dfcf1dd133bab72feeb4b329/faragerapebozesonugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr2uv6a9is28g485cadk8m4ksl/50571717202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/todigovazatufegopoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/fesuredobapirixotalubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783b272466a---vedukexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3465637b8d92cb367dddd4038af7eaf/99306209786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/89623872599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/radokorafupevaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862de8348c8---78933735010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcihlar.cz/userfiles/file/xalaburetijadugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873d70c9f49---72334051660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe496a65a1---gezajavogovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d8537237805f5988b81c759b117eacc/16771413593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ddc0fe37a2c9a318d768362a72069f/jerebokofekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/musapepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saddabro.com/userfiles/file/32260010259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aozbt.com/clients/3/33/335f642cf73e2ad82edc7dd4a76dad4e/File/31223895408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/14708518460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080161376801---75669523556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada3ff4e6ee852842f718b8b1b9da991/6535545062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/84240985800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=zaman+air+batu+akhir+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_off000110b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000128c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C8 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 4bae6bbe00d40042c35377edc32b06639a41a02457d12fc36f24151c9ef03b9d
font_02_sfnt_off00015621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15621 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 78a6385c7d4266974ff58fcd30af4a5c54e5d4a9c4e6dfdb183657572f3d959d