Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93d12c1830ccfda8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:06:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 83d74f70b52ead3116960384e835402d SHA-1: 61c1f131e8a5736c413f9064b6047f4ae3eec864 SHA-256: 93d12c1830ccfda889e7d0ff1d19611d7fffd5f840a8f194cffb1b078c2f8269
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to external sites, likely for malicious purposes such as credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/79467275866.pdf
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35592522416.pdf
    • https://it-remarketing.pl/app/webroot/media/files/xegonogotu.pdf
    • http://lmnn.ru/userfiles/file/vafaveluxaropu.pdf
    • http://dentistturkey.com/image/files/55990904935.pdf
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131db052b307---65799334905.pdf
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/43518089246.pdf
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-14/20210914165553498731.pdf
    • https://concertwristband.com/resimler/files/55788876299.pdf
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/14270728873.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142596965566---58688402097.pdf
    • http://kanomax-nsk.ru/images/61573186980.pdf
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/9096617047.pdf
    • http://domario.ru/userfiles/file/53047946180.pdf
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/tosazajuziveluweso.pdf
    • https://rovetco.com/userfiles/file/56820721749.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451cf5c4c59---botiwa.pdf
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406b7c97d2b---rerolawofilebiwi.pdf
    • http://studiofapas.it/userfiles/files/laburodaw.pdf
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/6177455361.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfb7bf027f996ef559b7c93bebe5dfe9/72318176025.pdf
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/64577717790.pdf
    • https://textosl.com/upload/editor/file/51808186267.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=persona+4+arena+ultimax+marie
    • 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_off0001149c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1149C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012cb3.bin
ebea4a971f81bc064263684f583b82d56603de7ec81be810b87a6e38f735fb96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB3 10552 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000144d4.bin
0d5d23695656a7dcd82d6a1a14fe2f52d65a9a574e700f1e358003572e919a02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144D4 23880 bytes