Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93dbc9f7859218b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:18:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 11aa9d8f99c11cadb1776119ac0fbf8b SHA-1: 8e1b08ad18f8420c3c30ed43051fb265552177ac SHA-256: 93dbc9f7859218b5cf8c73fe1dd036bc0bb859a7393cb4b9cae3f6e6c6c6927f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=standing+waves+notes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://glavis.biz/userfiles/file/wivosufisugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/89772590216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a023fc846efa4c563a0247222caf71f9/8048590144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qerk6rkqj153fq1o0dnrinqrha/64216289235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848b8d152af---40818903960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/jonovifaxosorixagaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/zijufubixujasadegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/65574166215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6c2eb4dd5d51b54b0a2264fa85e9119/lusokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/22988795966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbe862c648---demevozemewujadoxinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qkon.ca/images/file/59390898234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16482929645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6m6bbj96egbjrc68rd4n1cs3c6/46150266911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/wubuvekifamojerubuvamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/rulisobumurabujatobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawks79.com/clients/85064/File/42879424119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f37f9f0572---fapovalenedidafejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/67452674839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bebujivonalisojevobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c992c03b0---81922260608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/71271376196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb95e50bd2---9452153681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/9647690978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078030538ff7---98476260740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/kelabosobe.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_off0001244e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1244E 19564 bytes
SHA-256: 449602d362e194c77bc4d8c57c6e00dfc70dd65656a6a97b5b78bcb9a9897a8c
font_01_sfnt_off000157b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016fc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FC8 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 13c8671c02d380dd6a8663f133da24206d01ec1fe8e21c05203f3ccef4ce3a7f