Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93f82aacd151a70b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:38:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5de3f4012eb2344e2c21d0c7d7356a1a SHA-1: 45720e8fa023661bccaba0a6cec1676d93beddbd SHA-256: 93f82aacd151a70b383fa316091ec0bbaba87cb8c1a9a0ac386ecc9fc6f51b60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or social engineering to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e739df7f3eeefcebbd0033045d67e4f0/80543368868.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074740ed1f0c---xamavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63f2m88mg0jfms7f4l60jco7nd/viwipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d71938de3c---3813242971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30f44a97f5---37572271727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce05098fb58---jevexigugozilumigalugomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baqv2e56gcgc05f95a8993kak0/65077942415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d43e8a2ac788e87c672b388708759f8/75784613349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///nosutufufobuduzugamile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc03766f03---4199872198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076be9be8598---petiwegelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a877tjldp18evqcgekdc7fobv/93442082689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49antqcrs569ojd0kfjdgucbl9/vovolebanizuferasinota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujinigexobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40bdbd8c39b477c16ac81f46f4b0b724/19245098979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/020kdv3h4gsa4gpdacfjgrp2ph/88275613956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ade01e07ed93a8c8c383858d94790d23/buwazarezutimebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/62611860263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3dad4f0764---warog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b52c92b13bf185bdfde4b10aef379bd6/79211977169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f103ad14a---63651816262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bfc4da0c4---45060745616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/981d8b2f971c1847300eb3bf2fae2d1a/16618828526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomontironi.eu/userfiles/files/78489963675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=free+will+yahoo+answersPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa5bb1f4b653625963282cbaa5ea3dbe/pazafademotewupuxateme.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_off0000eeba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBA 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 98aa2f70b11e3e2d943135958ecd2963dfad4257ba7d15fb75d4f4a520420774
font_01_sfnt_off000105d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D0 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 7c0a91c0b972048db38a5b7ca54fa56b2bf2177f0d87f0ec272ae390bea787c7
font_02_sfnt_off000133fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1