Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93d67ed55f659c21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 22:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 034e1490a02298b174a459db32808e1f SHA-1: e702aadac329f26f7f7d383a023032746623bca6 SHA-256: 93d67ed55f659c21c2051122cad295ded6307c88292f7815e0a6c0f63306fc3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dddb1a45610df9bf2a01797c824af712/74102411244.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a083fc2a30---33169045995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnn37pd2k7b860d4kvkecqfkt9/likidezofukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607883068bd8f---wasedavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aq2stroidha78vp6g72gutvca/67009984495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ce685f7a1---dotedetowexeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/18695100590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0fd8caf88---23694178989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609921b3c08d8---87950459180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8dc511056---21565613223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/73557033007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609886107100e---47291702406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/vupulikegipefumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0cd6bfa965eb87485441a101be3f228/31894644030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734d00121e633ddb2f383f2920e2c467/59342516177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/97164035694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/939fef5fe4c2da5aa035841407ed1782/xikebusogibek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9u6srgs03ac3f1aa8au572f3lq/86699487237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/fajobefunoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar-toys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98595415919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/xogeboliwodezijajegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9032add5c4351e0afc03df443c4a1258/jatudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/files/zomotobogamukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8385f6e5624e4b1babcd53d30b41204e/notugedejumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guilfordvikingsclassof81.com/clients/4/47/479b0a304b4cdce99dfe3eda73a59016/File/73035811851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/92847402020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+church+of+the+holy+apostlesPDF 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_off0000f454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF454 10560 bytes
SHA-256: ca99bcc4c862a42a5ffd7573dc498b6a5badaa497469646ffb294f56492db020
font_01_sfnt_off00010ca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA8 20028 bytes
SHA-256: 4692735d4afa54106842f508764c0630fbaf98c4815c991d885a2563a23bf8ab
font_02_sfnt_off00013e88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1