Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 091197b43acc42a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-30 21:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 8ecc6b3eb38f6909fdd9ef521dfceec6 SHA-1: cf1d6aba3ea96f309c11dd3e19eeaf765a8d7c41 SHA-256: 091197b43acc42a800fae6671254960e713407e9dfa685b652111e2c8f218a5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=libro+sopa+letras+para+imprimir PDF link annotation
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdeb2e744477dbbf1316f80445e6b293/gotufigirupetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/8948446988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/81186816845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0kekvughmltdg32ot3alidcdqk/17329376149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607730fa162bd---74353794359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00bdd99b58---55531646400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c524bea539321789a754908fa5647b9/pedililedugesujuwuserud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88727ee49c---wesududuwebovigepifalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/11878392740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4e21493d5---69350197486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/25070093121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/wivemopefevizidigibek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/vumumogurezokoloxiwuniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e86a1e214df---47350808901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbjbe87m9v3f6vlqfgfah7t984/zuranukotixanipakiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a73adbfae8---relotabefuwafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f643abeb44---zivemurotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3f019a938---pudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42658838084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/jimerigaxari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/50233800604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.org/scauserfiles/files/64515034035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/356690375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netpost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/tasoredisel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DE 10408 bytes
SHA-256: cfaa6a15a5daf60a4cf1e0b2b8b979f8d80ae7e5359189f1702a8d319e761072
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD36 18756 bytes
SHA-256: b3228e5ebbfdc1ada1e7bc9d1703170a25ebceabbed9aefc4677f30083f35d15
font_02_sfnt_off00012d33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1