Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 993c0e0988aad6ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0c54bcee406348edc33d017a9357f1f4 SHA-1: b22227cc7bf25badd33ce2b6265c133d9b67f889 SHA-256: 993c0e0988aad6edb571c19e67508b40542b0a093f10a337713379acda00323f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://splogservice.ru/content/files/22684738272.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/82949967799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3d22723e9---1483515296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd0e19077596e258381ccc344c6a4d21/57752432587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/wapekomewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767eaf842e7---gewovofexitosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/pufimunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/bawokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8b4468a9e---ponifanedigepisijufikuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/dawika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/in51ot734e895vfas085u6ukj6/99738980638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermanosgolbano.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpfile/74594129204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjrfm2furnaicjml8l1k2n16d9/75470308713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0744259f7---meresevogomopasavajatoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021062107013690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6a4e516ef---tusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210710_110211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bpq02u1o2osetqohp8bo5ol6h/tutuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/kupiniwosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/54785302424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianfonmm.com/d/files/mazigidazabomojezavozasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e59585734---82629232108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be0a6fa3200d3eaa1d36ff8224996e6e/vexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb3f8309df---52469497065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=dictionnaire+acad%C3%A9mie+fran%C3%A7aise+pdfPDF 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_off0000e4e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E3 19640 bytes
SHA-256: 6b198f8af2b438aba045e5d0f941038fb20109d10f8eaf58a87dca6cd2426536
font_01_sfnt_off00011705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11705 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1C 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 897fb03e825cee3ae2aeff732fc6e43a4b8f80c1cbd754b39d00bcdf798f7833

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