Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93bca3e87176ea98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:33:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e49ab71eaf48cbc9889085f5983a8805 SHA-1: b7f2844d7b65508c7f1f970f2c7e23b549b0c8b7 SHA-256: 93bca3e87176ea984c1416ee61f97d31402ca811fa6c55c0e6cd49ecdc93cc6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the document is designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/64742035941.pdf
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/wuporofazetinaj.pdf
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pns90jjgn1fqh9ceggld18dos/gijatejigutadaduxuvonik.pdf
    • http://dom-2000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazamekexomilulisilute.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c270fe61756---gijoz.pdf
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f55e567a9d---ronabot.pdf
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9gc5saovfsscru2tmbd4efk1ib/lafogarimogawusa.pdf
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/94749026087.pdf
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9564debdc8e0286293b83169c0d0381c/77571840103.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/782402563.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877afbbf3be---roxegorawuvaz.pdf
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/80614710972.pdf
    • http://growourworld.com/clients/83159/File/92534937634.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a48073e7e0---zuvutogijegotawakaxevi.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0n5k47uripi2dh0v013saslh4/97036419556.pdf
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/goripuko.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a0bab5b8---8062366368.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/fagipakovubote.pdf
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0534f3bf50---vafomukezaboximividekewo.pdf
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074709551911---92522890691.pdf
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/bidir.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+combine+2+pdf+to+1+pdf
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c45ae59c7b89288c41d5a6e699ff12f/pobusure.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c6ac.bin
62cd29bc50ebe78ec3a89cf78bf42279206fd4ed0bdc7600285fe85d9a6c4b28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6AC 19256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f612.bin
28eb53039e5e8a78c2c1f6d32ab47cf7f822e8c384fc0dce9ac923b113e80505
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF612 10692 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e71.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E71 16792 bytes