Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93cbab9320adf15d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-13 20:51:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8570eb8ea37c3b67eb402bb0071a4e22 SHA-1: a27ff15341c48649dce108d5088f1175b73c242d SHA-256: 93cbab9320adf15d093ddbdd5b2455eb555cd205b58ac68c588392f747829813
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to lead users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=data+communication+and+networking+forouzan+5th+edition+chapter+1+ppt PDF link annotation
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/wezipise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/tegekazoxitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ee73db2a8722aba4490db1ef28c012/19183210021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a143f4b02b2a36ac7f393659a0f9efc/98484072415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e233d5ddf9a49d024200a76c8cb488/kaludexod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/28649905467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents//files/68170301804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/ziwirikakapewones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210622135418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096863113bc7---tinevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b988c9595a5e2c54736bab63ef7dfb7/94538457120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e6f042a46c699917ac368a9217f3bd/nexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/77762869233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/pabamuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portaldasfreguesias.com/portugal/vianadocastelo/vianadocastelo/geraz_do_lima_sta_maria/ckeditor/ckfinder/file/39775403884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/kiwofatagibitojelegag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/morapasagudebevurisulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021072523272779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb032c0eae---xigirikonepabuzobasita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8140a84bb5---nefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b4c9087df---69618452709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogaleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9480abf0d---naxufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba2135c957---89631715077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ce44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE44 16552 bytes
SHA-256: c5eb81f21d580e41181267f97c7bedb25bc3b5b678160c51319552bf9c63437d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98A 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 60754c8469f13425e03b68c0fbc64cdab83ddae1fd61ecc213b9b2eee8caa46f
font_02_sfnt_off0001142d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1142D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1