Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93ecac25a3ca16bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:13:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9b0d9ad6929d228ecd9f5ecce4f364f5 SHA-1: 4978f190d806ca4a63f29fb36548cf65cd428548 SHA-256: 93ecac25a3ca16bf633a41fe2db289d8f085765f5c0740116a28dc446c69cf92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm and pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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=walking+dead+season+11+episode+18 PDF link annotation
    • http://ancient-theater.gr/media/file/86823522108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gediklimakinahidrolik.com/resimler/files/disupawumuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/37676978920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://89928386.com/uploads/files/202109012027005918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamphucthang.com/images/news/files/tapamolazologiminarozifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/6391948260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuszdounky.cz/files/diweraxage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/jekaderapomasewapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352ecb561c5---33483397288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/7831160789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokiwaseja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkp.ru/upload/global/file/43537432329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5qa83jdi1o914atqbeoic5lj4/zogarutuwotusaxutavakako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinetanidogidixorotele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group-com.gbintl.com/ci/userfiles/files/57679665110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d17d74985---23223520665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/wuvejopimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c169861a5786d13ad739e1276723ee2/68324937980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prompol.com/media/file/gunivozetujuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/44795727352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/85444786688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/tegozigafawozimubuvajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91451479566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brihat-group.com/assets/userfiles/files/69561163605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/46730856645.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_off0001004f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1004F 18564 bytes
SHA-256: 2053d6a0551eacca9312626f964992917df61026295328e2e6448c8fa2ef8b7e
font_01_sfnt_off00013055.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13055 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001486c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1486C 10716 bytes
SHA-256: e1bbaa43e696657cee50cafe182e845c0aca3bb228d0134dc95909ac172d833d