Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93ee0dcc670cb0ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-14 08:16:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 15b124ff7d080a30241baab9e2d9de99 SHA-1: 5777ae9874d66dc4e8ff3ad37548d8579bd1351f SHA-256: 93ee0dcc670cb0ea3219b77b366994058f53ec7b296ea04c8ca6949be71cb564
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mp3+download+justin+bieber+peaches PDF link annotation
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf5318ae57---fovefaxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64652753ab---32140162922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608899996af9b---86875445666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b2e11b93c54---kezedokerabototu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b34fd820dd5---96209595632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uefj89b4fitb6ho7l67h40dcb4/35616498787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/98406757607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7565e483a4ce8f158318e7d9520e77e1/pupujifopasuzisagufuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0u1glfkut12okonr760c3bohu4/vipakufisolosolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lvkmv0lk24u661om15dv5l2qt/22890161659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/fepaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5qgq1thl59gued31qlrpka397/xigaremadidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5221p2pukhqnf4kn8dj8jjkp62/36107653042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e07b2b2e5b---dotogitomuzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2e55e3f62---41684769586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/zeromamalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c978c096e7---bulatefinizujisewuboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/18687221677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000eeca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECA 5640 bytes
SHA-256: bd30a4031f15a41719994f2983ecbd8aa21b4cfa66b198dce3a1e80d7a065c96
font_01_sfnt_off000101fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FD 6908 bytes
SHA-256: f93c7331b5bc0e0c8965ac257f97cee87451f9b3636aec197f41567ae59934fc
font_02_sfnt_off000119e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E1 11900 bytes
SHA-256: 4298c97832f6fe573b1fcd0f072af2236a1f6cbcdb9aa2602a70fb20a754188d
font_03_sfnt_off00014270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14270 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 0906db37de8c4c62799f2c623900f36ca56b0ca17a17a94093d76aad7d066284