Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93ec629154853b55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-07-21 16:19:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 05bf0c239d8239f2a94b3f1fc0d5ea8d SHA-1: 7c7347009df482549268994676e862894b3b6ffe SHA-256: 93ec629154853b5567b8c8cacc4c8a1c648c7e4141ed9491cf84cceb06deab19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure and embedded links align with techniques used to host malicious content on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa4cc2f6cbaf23b61c5a14f932ac1be9/sosupotidewavuroter.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b53295c0a41---bixosulaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/79010179600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b321e34a7b793b0810289781ee269fde/febakutamebomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcaf9644ec5---12843752803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608173835af0a---doguwogafaxoretovupewusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkyangmei.com/uploadfile/file/2021062219313473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/85691662096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607446ee42354---6711920354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/vazibefimidowebawanojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/devm66mbbqueg1ncltq10tkjg2/4079567231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntrc.biz/clients/f/f0/f0759d16aca5b3dfc9163ee994587b7f/File/roridorubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/xazetebevewapuwisifafov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aba949547dc79267f102251771ffbfb6/jazokokekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f3ee65d28637dc5de8b2e3f75b9abf/dajulexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48tt3qmr5grrb9sr8judl5ogc1/sugumutobonutosuledavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5d7a360d0---90276452826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/xudewulevovavugagulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1648a811220f32c262fbeed9adbc9a37/38662147975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/lulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee05ddc9577---fegedamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad8c8213543c398827b5e648d6a5d8f4/34804393186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khyatiinfotech.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90011754639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9c30c246e---26481134344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+tpr+and+fprPDF 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_off0000cbfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBFB 17208 bytes
SHA-256: f70a494e7befec3e1c12cb75de2fd21c4fc654ab996e392ea3e2fc30be2749ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000f90d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011124.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11124 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 583a5e3f328e04155c74225f3f9df37ba7a9f6ed421838276103ab56a1e51bce