Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93eaff9c5161990f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cae3998b64ef2d1b1148e12ddc98fb1d SHA-1: cf51e267b0793456925475f74f35ad6e12ce6abe SHA-256: 93eaff9c5161990fab193191e837d2b7e521da1f9a127bd9362412877f4511df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajologa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://trouver-une-ssii.com/img/pics/files/vaxoleviwubutafitobomexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/83909565833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10894824650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/tosibasifajigidizixisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614207cbb2ec9---20597184212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mklaassen.nl/images/file/40115656370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/8d0c2c47a39e0b4e7ede997c9244d4c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/45227151800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/wowarideret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/25159767061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/60043824946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/79103215600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/guzedotuwugabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletroluz-al.com/_IMG/img_internas/file/razisefisadipolokuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304b250ae7e---kegojukoruvivapumujejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/66310016081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/kakepemexelosivemude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a5f97631f---21986931011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a2600dab1e---dozagovevobofepasowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshamrockpublecco.it/file/mabivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbbaf01dab735e04d4a8e64459780fb1/83281838043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/zifewegubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/71016563862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614175eb54585---sibezavutufuxekawujuxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=apk+data+modePDF 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_off0000de17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE17 10116 bytes
SHA-256: 325f035d8d94a3038d742fc8d3361f3b79bc16fdd7e49da7d2f320c8c87248a6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B9 17236 bytes
SHA-256: f5f737495b6ad45f0463cf77586aee8ce7208750403cf630616d229a6546c3df
font_02_sfnt_off000121bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1