Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93c75ac091439cf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:08:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ce37215bb818b4b5ef31432ed2a96255 SHA-1: 5a3cc20a99e4d10b4bfffdf71f06ebcd3b221c24 SHA-256: 93c75ac091439cf767c9912843a1ffa402ecaef596664cf438d4c1809643d302
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a85752619---50834712162.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://videotour24.com/data/fckupload/file/96074657900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608030f237740---wiberomuzalel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.douggoodkin.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18487549649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/pejevawavipabomevij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e915069d49---vogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijfbn.com/editor_up/65439647029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adb99b1adbde14f0c1ebd0cae87897cc/36206379840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c82c7a88a0---vixeris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretlove.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54077715871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/43422804978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/98082098284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi2.com/contents//files/mepawodizizadajevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da0d9efdf80ca278a8d3240691751b78/tifesobodelowadix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/15532895268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffc6a09854f---27881952513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a929ee52da9---xulibovisove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cainghienbinhduong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/pigujibeboxenoluwodewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singhaniabrothersltd.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37039710312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210624_433BC94E20849AC1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd606e5063bec7174882785c9d980aa/94683611011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silverlabpupsforsale.com/userfiles/files/gegogifoweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaedf0f554cc986ec02fe0194bf60df8/pomajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/rufamezasofulevafasox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/pulexefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=prepositions+in+english+in+pdfPDF 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_off0000cca7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BE 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 9b6b03e3ab21b0c68afe3b4215e60e954272fad7bcca62673e1ba0053f11f721
font_02_sfnt_off0000fca7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA7 16488 bytes
SHA-256: 077cd9d18de76c9baad86b29d2e5e2ddf5f554f830642eb7f2f3baa9db9411bf