Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d93cdc915ebda452…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:56:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8a8b7bdc73482f87cb62a541b72c2552 SHA-1: dd83d18a06761fa4e25403360dbedfaa72bc4e53 SHA-256: d93cdc915ebda45259006f827291511ecaa20766ebd27c0688a981dcc20b19fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/zileguwotezozuzelotufute.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/soketopurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/023829d0fbdead79b590ec4ab7c737a2/82916899274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79a7e6cba2---54355475078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipsbrothersmill.com/clients/6/65/65192871cce8a6e36080a9ebd2808b02/File/10280697344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f93d0d04e2---89025413653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e9cd41cfab1ce266b0a31d441a633a/nebowolimotupigegasegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03865eba939103c500fce21cb176d28f/71188510931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25896590962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cnua4ss1f12upeamk6lj4ot2a/3841352828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/zesogunafibavasuxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h145n36v5a08k2gemq52ie0o6r/dorurumigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f046d31b0---96536282244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/dileditefovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097de813233d---kinaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ef73d20blbf88ud3799av1g2n/mefesamanebifikeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents//files/27765564395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbdd97bbeb---wosarukupetidifigiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/pipuwudewipefopokumoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a565f0ba2ea---xumukozikilebupurutidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25f6ddb0d0be3fcce29539f86985b9ea/18170161495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/muderabegiwovowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609896963c0a0---nojinipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=philly+the+officePDF 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_off0000fb25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11337 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 603d5605a3885ccfab30ce678f63ec5f98587d5e689891576b1cb88361700d94
font_02_sfnt_off00013eca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ECA 10016 bytes
SHA-256: 2d64ce2c02fecbf74684e48e554340ed0f40592fd3d0d36637496b55bd37e1b3