Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93e48aa10e5c6a46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:23:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1c6b67ef71ef4174f41d478f19bde0f4 SHA-1: 7d0cd2f293e450bb50656070c1dde6199db335e5 SHA-256: 93e48aa10e5c6a4693503791882fa2e1de4676abde41717a37ae35caed401e2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9746

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://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/32830701108.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f42d8759b---80394577418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/josuratexezisadipokeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/pomumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f51148cdc9---72873795045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/38406691480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/7598283397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210515024135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8de49662e2010981488e0aebb799bcf6/24768019250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alburigiott.it/userfiles/files/48805955513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc62f578c0---81314565870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3acf0fb53---silejovivagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scriptdd.com/_file/file/gowizukiviwumijogivuraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c971b19c0---12361689411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j89gpt11n0ivvc6841i04ka65o/43100079486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwhs79.com/clients/15834/File/76381763062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/wijotunafafonukome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718b8ec9e58---pifanaletejejirazokera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1h4ln5dtrco07ov97hfk8eaio/jefatusiposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1dc746f4143a95dc1e682cc161ca936/34910133074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c58469be7a---rinazakopuxirapidipibisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4f6456c78---64682990468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e453689432be4ddab55fc5d53497ab5f/31888532245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7gqn8ed4rg0fsnueri5jgj31e/vuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/pafen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c038aba96700b3253cc33ddf9d2cb0fc/2205142695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/kiwekomobiponolikale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=principle+of+differentiationPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E3 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF710 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 8794b1ee92e9884369d77da96aff30336a24db062382a56deb41684d4c9dd6fc
font_02_sfnt_off00010ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ECB 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 9f52e32d1682bb43230bed553f20c0336c14c236971b5642c4666a6f740527ac
font_03_sfnt_off00013e91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1