Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a93d703bf3e9eea7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-08-14 14:12:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: f5176afab9ea63d59d3f823a9b4bceb0 SHA-1: 1a6a9ebcbe2d70d8bfdb5117df23a0e6e16e7c06 SHA-256: a93d703bf3e9eea73a79c70fe5512d0ac8b58637e0ace3f2a52123ef07399c55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phishing lures. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcc77eab14---gobam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c9c4984820a53f74497b23866c8a64b/50517158920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31cb01178b---29692962791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.privathospitaletkollund.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56591596081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a1a3f303ffdad157801458290d19e8f/5401060940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae86caf618---lupofanesukuregu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/xivakejatarovuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///57167321448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16271165542507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/73326418248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/18559727475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b822ec6b6---nuxojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efe562798d4---40725736973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/sivonulobudamokazaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/96637948514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c784136465---poponivagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/47633693870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/66853915612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e5ce2efa9---74308479076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607420b880cd6---putivakizuxobosujav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/30342286018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/43639070423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089989b1df54---12369556877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b28116bc9f---99538733126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=print+free+handwriting+practice+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000f947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF947 16672 bytes
SHA-256: e22b9b8a2145058d9c504df8dacb85213642e5dff924c299e87efd8e7fb1f364
font_01_sfnt_off00012489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12489 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 49b62da7ad4b6574d627d4732f5a0294ea2ce8734f639f2fbf1bfb3a12359b7c
font_02_sfnt_off00013e03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1