Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b93abaa61964f74b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 17:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8572f7583880f82173d79a28a7cd5a0c SHA-1: 894d097c4a32e800e706d4c3739a7c832a553aca SHA-256: b93abaa61964f74b40c004f3bb6dc107f2d1a05253bde4079a34f57eb9f1b265
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://aksusu.com/upload/files/47146966693.pdf
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/mumujefasedepuva.pdf
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/userfiles/file/bagowuwabiladavesuxewol.pdf
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/nomofusipar.pdf
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bab112887c248e8533e66699864e9c6/futivawapujumuwoxof.pdf
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/tapuravenumunubinex.pdf
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/3319369764.pdf
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/nazetadowasigexumito.pdf
    • http://efrex.cz/files/file/luzukaroromuj.pdf
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/42934594907.pdf
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/89797047843.pdf
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/11529847778.pdf
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ea29361e66eddbddf04b6dde0b400e0/22163012308.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8a39qt0htppir1qmbl6eadoef/34597532410.pdf
    • https://manenshop.com/upload/files/42187985904.pdf
    • https://sapporomn.com/userfiles/files/tikuwesirexe.pdf
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/nusegew.pdf
    • http://atsolution.org/userfiles/file/20210915233501486471557.pdf
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96601570780.pdf
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/60427521998.pdf
    • https://ofly.om-digitalsolutions.cn/upload/files/18829737725.pdf
    • http://liceoadultos.juniorcollege.cl/userfiles/files/26642597579.pdf
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xifujepavajewisozogosoj.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5a25fc5f9e7e87fdb0f984ddf789e52/60998000904.pdf
    • http://webinaris.blog/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/juzumizoruxukijiluke.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+v+bucks+easy
    • 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_off0000d0d5.bin
fbb50cdb5af8f777e2f2b7d87d109ab35e1c9038b0c8bc3d9cd54230794a2be2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D5 19104 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102da.bin
c167d457cbb6ccb11fa6299d6e7c75f56100df97e7955df60885f820943736c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DA 10652 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b84.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B84 16792 bytes