Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b093d6e16b333b7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:26:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 649175527821757b1e2b7b4b1f820d2e SHA-1: ebe6c56f1ac086b88bff131e06d7c704133455ee SHA-256: b093d6e16b333b7e3495022f6dc497ec3fe63b737cd8c80ad76aa35804096f0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on WordPress sites with upload plugins, suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ca477bc79e6832e47ac6831e01fb556/82884013846.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbec8c6hpktd52qmef3jvgmj4p/43804709844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/89460132391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accfb6c912b---givutagumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/zolotawozozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/kaxasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/49091226914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866c6c8f93c---vevegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b628d7caed0---99647069832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110d0d2758db---86139571545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/gitolakuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/94582873419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/fiwejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/97182983249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f425c14a5---budazorugozunorujenafepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec93f41221be095c1ebd9e1e2a4d1618/dozasafubavazinesedezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1630061574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/11672296553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fb4b07a326bcf327a708f53ff1ee48/wenolatovexubenoril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e0b9324c5---652807886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9ea92aaa9---52937568518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamagitujodisiguloxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22145136625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/12344313907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=highest+grossing+film+in+the+worldPDF 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_off0000b953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB953 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d16a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD16A 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 9717f33ccabab20527620aa2b88caa2bcc6edd257689e8e332c0f1167f73aec3
font_02_sfnt_off0000e999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE999 15604 bytes
SHA-256: 99705e35082d08c84b7e90441e743b6461b59e69a42b4686aa38b1a1d2f777d4