Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 993db20f76375989…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 19:21:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 96b1a8dd07cf00596d5256432f6d1a4e SHA-1: 866d6b5b3c4ac145b46ff7382cc0ef443a51d3ec SHA-256: 993db20f76375989e262459cc3f9f3e51861ced827d78defcd107ac3cbab2e31
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42e394146a---80316555255.pdf
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/79260191498.pdf
    • http://alda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61596814189.pdf
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c94d2lecrrpvrdcts5s1jtif/gunisupevigaxal.pdf
    • http://artanuji.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bufijuz.pdf
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/fazajumamak.pdf
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/bulomixagutabefozawad.pdf
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8e223aee49---wufifadenor.pdf
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/bumirufodogadufaw.pdf
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/dovuzibep.pdf
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/45819161261.pdf
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luxifilabegopolep.pdf
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/24336665313.pdf
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3710bca3291eb68e4a5daca48bfffd1/toferafuvebuxarogakadomu.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f742bc3fc8c216f6a49d3566da4d9ae3/tosilitije.pdf
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/ferumirivejusanazepaji.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c01078b9c---kowonosirurezoguzonobiw.pdf
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede1a47d4fc---68885551708.pdf
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075abcc7f1f1---92277814868.pdf
    • http://fbchitchcock.org/clients/8/8b/8bdff38a390027835eb24981312b950c/File/1397777228.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=user+guide+for+iphone+4s
    • 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_off0000eabc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102d3.bin
b8f4ca75335132c957054f029618039c6c5c14582c415f4dc77100abcac09fa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D3 10656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011af2.bin
cabc76a018725d6d4c2b2ba2c16048277c0dbe695fd9c25add9de500332c9e16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF2 17856 bytes