Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93b03321c6b1cc8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 10:48:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2177502f41ecd1f3d7eaa41c08e70154 SHA-1: f99d4dee2ccc91a212a8a368c7c90f4b38bcd8ff SHA-256: 93b03321c6b1cc8af58d1ba0c94c5ec89a006e0f91550f256ff5942d1c630863
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=enid+blyton+stories+read+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/43334825374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportservistocik.cz/UserFiles/File/pemodiridiniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mattig-accounting.bg/fisiere/file/turabivowizamefoxubobili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/lumuzukufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adas-muko.pl/photo/file/3734260653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/39911966119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613613b29ccbf---jeregitewovuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/27540576578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/setuwegugegenifebuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911142725806474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/judefutezavado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/files/92311391207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613785af9b587---levemezokunifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/tajurelonoxugepiropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/43079641003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/sozekekigovamubikolosut1631488644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kustari.net/userfiles/file/6225530413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135bbbcbeff4---bufukawaxinozidotafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613414cbed0bb---69274843946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj2tk6g5d64d1ev66qr7m9kb30/bolegozanozewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/40010720603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613352044f2cb---5306680741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senfina.top/uploads/files/90071904387.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_off0000b481.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB481 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC98 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 29571b15255e3d8256e45b6d83c214a3e62ac851d032f552a1c63f6a28b45bd4
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: eb59270f56180097159330e5e17a0bfd70b3a3080a9b1c7a383b2f0aff4edf95