Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d93e7411c2340a1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-10-09 01:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7ee13614cfad24818048dc8232da0370 SHA-1: 31ba4aef8a608cbe32fa62d610016ddd1f88e6fa SHA-256: d93e7411c2340a1f751c387f6cb64a045d7e300660e63b5e2b1828ecf95ed9a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farms, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+op+yourself+in+minecraft+server
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64808689507.pdf
    • http://sinorarechem.com/upload/files/79617336245.pdf
    • http://vigen12.com/userfiles/file/70406461761.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615fceca9311c---34343785941.pdf
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/67689814485.pdf
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/dixokopesap.pdf
    • https://kolorubursztynu.kolorubursztynu.pl/web/uploads/files/zasufiduwowi.pdf
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/81874243708.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410cdee82d9---sirojijedaxupo.pdf
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/44818541872.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/432c8dc94d7a85ccc8cbf69d9f292cd7/dulukolipikagiti.pdf
    • http://xn--4k0b43gkwo4gn.com/upload/editor/file/46750860830.pdf
    • https://delta-relay.be/userfiles/file/durupugaki.pdf
    • http://shinaval.ru/userfiles/file/49979442778.pdf
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61028374151.pdf
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/natat.pdf
    • http://mydreamtuscanwedding.com/editor_up/68739798719.pdf
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/dubatexegixarajojurut.pdf
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da15b5494910255cd8e1730c1bc0b0fa/60199933725.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a912391e0605c3d978df8970c7f8a7c7/vejitidepufejur.pdf
    • http://x-mobio.com/upload/files/51736826009.pdf
    • https://smartstone.ca/userfiles/files/vavabapikufumonapel.pdf
    • http://hiroshima-teishaku.com/userfiles/file/50780284412.pdf
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/52164545748.pdf
    • 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_off0000de3c.bin
3fae60c8fd7bf27ed8b5386afc7c411c19b6343599cce33293f8530eff16a2ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE3C 11000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010fea.bin
c1360a8a610880d76ad21446899e40a628d8cd489fd2fbf25cf0259d7665bd59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEA 18876 bytes