Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b93c4b77ced30894…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-07-25 17:36:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 93c72d2ed9538cabfb6740ed7c834418 SHA-1: c3d046b1f8c880cf639d31e50a14d96f686c54e6 SHA-256: b93c4b77ced308946befa634fd95a943c5f059c09d067992f55b26d2fe714121
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/91568550142.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38095709151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a866621d08f---20594754820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubabus.cz/novy-web/upload/file/lonojupesetiwikoneto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b4c97f32410d62a3eb6abb752e7067/gowobinazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/dufijibonutuwiluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/30160577945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32616c1ceb---xiwipabuzuzugefapegoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roughriders66.com/clients/f/fa/fa96273273f04fd2a06feef12b1e4d70/File/wotofixovisexuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/pivebusegatusure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/59152935947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/tirekoduwozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1466123994c77d01b21cfb1d48ef41/67130021528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27399be47933c21e3f2377482628a46b/85838321873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkj2a356jlcb4j42jvvgn715vm/52520349292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42aa746de6---16513010921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/29868172760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/pixixavaloterev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abee3960fda---nenosabodupozuputipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36aed4b99f18fc7d9583e51fc93c872a/xenekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/la7n85hq9kdsora6qh530jjnul/rusoxagewez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f34f3ad181---75540577745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=candy+crush+mod+apk+free+shoppingPDF 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_off0000d680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD680 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE92 17220 bytes
SHA-256: 10fbbe15f238b34649a91d5b62fb4d9bb930ff4d472f397b9b3cea6a03764481
font_02_sfnt_off00011ba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA2 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 525e6cb6033958f6a12ec1c2290546f53df9ccafa4b6b809ff435a918e2b4d0b