Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93c4eeb589cac46f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-27 12:46:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5918acc67ecca47f460265cd3c7d7cf7 SHA-1: 18d7a7e5ad33f9f6db6602c9c7bf1f338279c29a SHA-256: 93c4eeb589cac46f8ce11932b702f8407d6fa4139ca2702d47859ea426f2c5ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/piboxepudifasuronedomoran.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c0b24df19---16003112653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chetaomaynganhnhua.com/uploads/files/31190353053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/dizitixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/supewevivitawevozuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fecdd7e73a112e68f98387d03fa0b6/20511492239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/erogauoj4fmknb3thbh19pd5o6/86558673375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084658269068---66639287113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aeee7275ee---xopunagewedup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/61484848568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriouz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pixokuvagivonuvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89bbabe56b1456f17f8205bc8227b718/laxojopitipesikurenumeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75cbb38ca8---mobedekipobavibisuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/foporedugisesubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e2aeec649---41296173789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/files/81134639909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e5295fbc8e7757a2d998c9c4af16b51/zivunejigerosabasigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79b120d6896ff99bef6ec55b02b7a515/zutemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/zupewadodadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pglfrio50agluvkmngimhojmmj/jebeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+tell+if+someone+is+visual+auditory+or+kinestheticPDF 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_off0000eff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001080b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080B 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 704bfcc249fb4bab267d728d053b393f83a7db789d50d1b64b0ae1f6dcfade94
font_02_sfnt_off00012218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12218 16904 bytes
SHA-256: a327ae2e5390c7cdfa7b1531730e25a3d4add83243f94a44b9d13a0772825f87