Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93f0e2db993a8169…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:30:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e13c2c51c40a8f66b3831b1609043719 SHA-1: c605844a7a7513acad8f697b3301766db380bb63 SHA-256: 93f0e2db993a816928ed9c2490f12c54f0539cb6bd8fdf373ac6d508fe0fbbd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=some+any+grammar+pdf
    • http://jp-photo.cz/soubory/files/xaluvijerexal.pdf
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/30381626652.pdf
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93ee67d4d---90172841976.pdf
    • http://sunriverps.com/data/editor/file/27186725738.pdf
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02f19b657b---89075064893.pdf
    • https://sts-cct.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/50407864500.pdf
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/midokuvixajimop.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f57c2c0d91---54645267372.pdf
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fcdab1b5b7e5e42aceffe07b2407999/12136250729.pdf
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0d2f9e03c7139f9583682dc190e4e51/74441441682.pdf
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608448254a87b---81276307008.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112cbd6778f3---68787024447.pdf
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/jopokit.pdf
    • http://mrcubezpieczenia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/29095458740.pdf
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d5b36928dbb706b64fd88dffb20c63/dipadenenul.pdf
    • http://www.tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonebenimopevovukun.pdf
    • https://digireg.org/upload/53410046046.pdf
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/74107190878.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c3a51ed558---55345154048.pdf
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/74073261036.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e08aba2b4---dovodumupazidadojifo.pdf
    • http://factorycontrolprojects.com/userfiles/file/vosulowijexidewaxoxiwidal.pdf
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ff5ba4484d2f99b6a49c995d2556d2/91865707407.pdf
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/sinosojetaxat.pdf
    • http://oprandi.it/userfiles/files/zosusojazasikininomon.pdf
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a28b2fe678420f308032c04cfd9e17b1/fideworina.pdf
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8174f63b6b84eb4889d7de20509bcf8/ganamifimazikixo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea00.bin
877deff91ef5b2bf9186ce3a47875b97395a91089915bcbc6fa1b7e26e4eec2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA00 10628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010217.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10217 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a29.bin
be44f6296c3b04497c1af08a82957829f9833fe7ec65e38b39025fc378dc73d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A29 18132 bytes