Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93bc6ca6ed5d0a64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3398bddd59f91940f7d5b22f7b46e25d SHA-1: d37134af1418794228828086660af872f36b0a19 SHA-256: 93bc6ca6ed5d0a641e83de7580984a49e326c0bb6181529cdad8ec1d4f7b6556
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly indicates an attempt to lead users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kanasigodideniravapu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pate4me.com/userfiles/file/17444730830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/wewuvulumovekiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52090af2b527a5f608cbc19788f4e785/60828908959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wish-pharma.com/upload/files/73892220761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bba2583209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613258b081a4b---2375293212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopits-directo.migrupoq.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagazorojixofododexudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/sopizera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriramsteels.in/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46755317946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zygzak.eu/foto_dane/wysiwyg/File/17864927227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents/files/jideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345dcb47f5c---nozesodiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/regorimugezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://space-edge.com/upload/files/55899874373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/74084380459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/jititarajosekavumanuvajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/modopuzafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitvenezuela.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97036813965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-caster.com/userfiles/file/kekafavumatibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=sameer+virtual+apkPDF 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_off0000b3be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD5 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 57de43f32fb1248dc5456a8ea5d0942fab35a68b6df494a610ebc0662c175329
font_02_sfnt_off0000e33a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE33A 15808 bytes
SHA-256: 915d28a5e8de2e7419046b6ce158eb2f9f36a51d56165b11ecfa6b603381e936