Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da93e566e929931e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:09:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7ae2fb704d131ee7941e1b4792c31657 SHA-1: 69526ccb1ce80c721ea5b52dde8c95e1c93ac265 SHA-256: da93e566e929931e7c4c88119bee38fdd16fc14e88543cae750cfe0e870d0a52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/zedawovuxesefowugib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/957gcpjn84q2tnfoli2prnjsl4/41411140771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcviet.com/img-phuctri/files/zikanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b324a683b---11016297545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/81149555414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210625094141927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fca10a6e7b---40452660321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc68425080---7923153595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07d89afddfc94229f68623fc6b4c144c/lodofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4489c487c5a1413c33f3f4521c704359/37546641796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/mogajukedovulilafufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfk4tpm9gbuo9mqsarlml75fu1/58127194063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6afe574e1e---33897378595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d573333d70---duvusudodaxizomubetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9de952b3e---64469648438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=fritzing+software+pdfPDF 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_off0000dab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB8 21852 bytes
SHA-256: c3532130b5b60e8a695fa034864d1db11a6f729a297d2e26246813276865f674
font_01_sfnt_off000113f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C08 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 497190db4a5cd389e0f24ccf4a33763edd043b87863268992ba275cf355fb9d1