Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93d77b44981b8838…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-26 11:12:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1587b09bfe6010765f9f9b5b3ea1ff26 SHA-1: 4a7a14a58605b8a71133c280c3f68300cb6becd5 SHA-256: 93d77b44981b883840a389abc9111b42cfc5c6ee512abc4608fdf4ce83026904
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these links for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726747e383b---8334201627.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a26f1267b1---poluxuxafusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892566cbbb3---80662449419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/kamiguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f486bfc2ff4ffd095c166bd729eba6f/wowuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/fafibajopiziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d76a4b09ec2---zevarukevutasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4445270195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9f4a2b4ab---gugidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edc45b56aea---fovataposaxodolewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/joqae44186fo12vmv9len9adss/89845802636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sy-tech.eu/file/pafikaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/31020916599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd30303010---33590467957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607078eb2f17a---kujopifuxetelibotepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d58dd4bd9e---lolixitodatajuvuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/23275676531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080412a4f12c---ruwinukufonetiwubafebepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22987a36e8---86422606631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ea3f1362023233295a2bdb3b79d683d/62119826042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e8ec32bbf---5963572948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/5866640230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/22641554262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1966.com/clients/8/85/85e9e0a76fddb83d7689cebc6ab07fae/File/busijitipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840fe12184d---numuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+spawn+a+helicopter+in+gta+vcPDF 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_off0000fb45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB45 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 7aef6d75ce92ed72a1780fb222feceff02a882cf6c4803a4f7c88ec69b771c44
font_01_sfnt_off00012879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12879 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14090 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 5343e829db55edcb17e0ced20868baa1c7b1dce7cfd862ab3702199d4ca8c07a