Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93e3bdb03ce542e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:16:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f42481d24451c2bdacdd22fab9049596 SHA-1: cfe0762b9090c0ab315c7cdd9def477a7172b793 SHA-256: 93e3bdb03ce542e63959647ce5b6daefa993211e70eb6c2f4db2743f9d382b17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+and+merge+into+pdf
    • http://wahluenfty.com/userfiles/migobadewaliraridox.pdf
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/87738156485.pdf
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bbba35e12f0e995362140613d4c15e8/57385502912.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88bcb25102d6335b9eee1041cb32d389/tezenudaberanaf.pdf
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog//file/73182071038.pdf
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdbb7319e8---duzujokorun.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161170102e1bc5---jotixiweponubeposito.pdf
    • http://fruhmann-elektrotechnik.at/35497154711.pdf
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/puvunexadalefakagurav.pdf
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/wutozuvuxebaxinifiram.pdf
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29e9afbebd9e97ff7074ac4d761e6e5c/99297315638.pdf
    • http://anjilh.com/uploadfile/file///2021043004230581.pdf
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/turezadowawijop.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c1f1e6ef6d---18130937226.pdf
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37649872211.pdf
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3291107b481662ec9c7703c275b4fc4c/vekenaboretagegasesuvuwa.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9ad484b62---49579006221.pdf
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/418122383.pdf
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/75179515052.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/78932740976.pdf
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/pomakexaw.pdf
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e453d858c72958d11a3c49d334255dc/49136231168.pdf
    • http://ormansagszive.hu/upload/file/5264792306.pdf
    • 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_off0000e9c0.bin
fb41449d4793125731ba55e589bc11dc3306e4ee3fbd43d9398191f93f901b51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C0 10724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010232.bin
f38b187a412c0db67e9cedca2dab8e784c38dba5426ff72fe03700d5d70cf451
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10232 17312 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e80.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E80 16792 bytes