Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93b47326108a113e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 21:33:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a5b7d35be7eb3106444ae3e2b8f9a753 SHA-1: e2f94e25b3bbcada0116af9695b05c88e4aa3c40 SHA-256: 93b47326108a113e62fff0b84c270b2d930f0be28c253fb8faf295987718fa45
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as a malicious link farm and a phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, likely serving as redirects to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=iphone+6s+qr+code+scanner PDF link annotation
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429e7279a6a---pepavolupunamenesorumasap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxelefivada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/widitetuvolaterof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/kipegifuzalodizadadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/74866310544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39086683061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/vupoxufimifiriwiwopanemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11224786096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614661ceefe70---wozotatozebodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60753473023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/wiwavolugogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://combatkuntao.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gezokotolovoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/pupozituviwideko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142285e36b2a---suxukelefekopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bucatariizidite.ro/printuri-fi/files/17523049987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/77815683101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/43569111659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phubozena.pl/userfiles/file/53886610942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/dogimexidirajatesozoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cansuyu.org/resimler/files/60690537820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/lorigexoxufozudulojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kazofuluzexo.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_off0000e157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE157 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 38488a8452896a186f4a19b82a36ae6e911d54e739ad4736d1b9369558743669
font_01_sfnt_off0000f966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF966 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11178 18164 bytes
SHA-256: e0a9e436860c5ee33e43efadd6f52e442fb3e4072427228e8d7cbd0c2cd82797