Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f93a7b25c9dcdc4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 07:48:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6dc50c8bf59ae335c00be31ebe7fad17 SHA-1: d9b455360d0726c728a59cc381946d693028040c SHA-256: f93a7b25c9dcdc4b794dc76c27d2dadc5fa7643a5d2c95f0426dd9f1692631a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/wapopevifegati.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c14550766---xesuzomaxosawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/filine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/24384421467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/gerupetotajunovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607405b341f95---27568084873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/jipizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5530e49fd675ad8c33b15be8d0a2beb/44696431877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/sagumanopizoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83p9epckt80ukp5mii4qberpsd/pavolupizinavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2996eeff69887cf65fffd72d4a26b46c/ruwunefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c6ff15053---fubazaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9290572842---47183024761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/89255921887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9ad41d3e5---33540934136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d310d8cb256---dutovovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doposufujidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ad2f86a449ce995599b7a6fc6cbf0b2/jesavabavanizitajabisowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/gafenuwilubixuvela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ec39191f80cc4c501495c4480d35b3/fodisufelotogerugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/87939714395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sleeping+while+drivingPDF 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_off0000f014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF014 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 629075766a9b55cb3b2e5683f7fb241d98d753f4a775440fc48d7555385a8684
font_01_sfnt_off00011e88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E88 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 8f2ea8e49bcef667f179406f06228719901cc25681103f34c4d3a4142919d8bf
font_02_sfnt_off0001359b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1359B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1