Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e93437f536d22620…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 22:02:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cbb760eb1b5830385fcfc77dd02e33ad SHA-1: d075e3f8b59b4a6a162903deeedccbc11d86424b SHA-256: e93437f536d22620322089a922dffc512d4a61568fdf5aaa40a298f1221b1ea7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The presence of these link farms and the overall detection suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://bonapartefamilynetwork.com/clients/7/7d/7d081654635712149502d88e72c54c2d/File/73069712904.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/87318786558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/45034410338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d799fa59949---40012058338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/97948117463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/pored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/75460309151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/93394253750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d481f06c21---bexugakugixada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accb8bc2f83---25012568983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f2973f7d295d1170beb6afea4b5be1a/2911270380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/13650805460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicupclose.com/clients/f/f7/f7c291dfb329fbc33054893077acf627/File/97320924064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb561ad657c---60413551655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5c52be2c605f9b470d215101aa54ebb/25734418540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b292832dc---pelomupafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mfolar3ogd2v0c41148ufcuf9/43801743199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729acac0932---12678224335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/30654655299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94e40048dafd3fafadaa9cb4f4c5739f/15391025308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210529_194510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075af5881f98---kovajuzituseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd2f140d7327fcb6274c1840408c1a65/68191134552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf085864fdd---ratapujolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff68.com/clients/71184/File/lokalafiwemimoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=examkrackers+101+passages+cars+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_off0000c921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC921 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE133 16624 bytes
SHA-256: 89e0f6a59773977299dbf551a6da48f91613f8afb214aa9e27e76299c8f40245
font_02_sfnt_off00010c30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C30 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 0f479947240a90f015c4ceef9ac342bff4650f1da7c695e99edf24db0936701d