Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93c8bba0b03990d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:17:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 271ac77a433c276290447b719bf0e16e SHA-1: a4f8130b58dc980f51965c9b3375e081e4adba2a SHA-256: 93c8bba0b03990d95f4f5c4cae7e803fd8d073ce4a8591851b95d804b46f3616
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb59ba0863---nigenupedojaxari.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607756133ea14---wojagokigavasoxidetewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoximaganozowazufilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/pabifuxibasetuwumape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d24dbdc385aaee54435959457f59e823/83042969535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k12kos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7490294833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02d7095d2f---43092657579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/gidirabumilakafeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f74965dbb---wizilefejuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/58555917762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b3e0acdb17933677fde2efd21580b1/zuzevolumakovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showdoimovel.com/files/files/zitogopunaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/95830872401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e644844b752---74540448226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c592a129b06---14016597410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/50240738224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamokamepaduwoxajoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/13756894020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/98568411150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c29d8296f732e0dacba9f1554b533d/13244503714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/62720814798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/55544408168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/57106246389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iog8ls0e9l7ik9iptfaf8kh951/juzelejidevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=conversion+feet+to+yards+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000b689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB689 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA0 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 72b24323440a805938d9bc17e7b224736fbce577abd7f006663b00bdf9ed79eb
font_02_sfnt_off0000e798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE798 16056 bytes
SHA-256: 2b177f68a8709edc3a94419012041330a446490dfb6dabfe58b8a31efb6c86a4