Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 091a2707748d2a15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 21:30:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4ce11089d6f9719b1d48a49c007cef23 SHA-1: 1239e4b0274c9af1bc8f0102fba345c638ac53e6 SHA-256: 091a2707748d2a1535abdbd71bfe12a5a96edcf52c35067b86b901d4a24c72fd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links, some pointing to compromised WordPress uploads, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://agro-partner.com/Image/files/natasilalidopexumitu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dtmaso.com/public_html/Imagens/file/vulivexunowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/likalewojuzulozedogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/40076923348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/26301299144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kinoteatr.ru/sadm_files/76418078738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-kip.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tavubuwafuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2caf646e3ef8d4704173f3f82394f577/kosawusulolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f3c13c86b7240e62ba04ab95eb4cfe8/kibedebevokupukiwuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/pejutugumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58002671073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefetoropajuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2f3390fd5---34986770777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/telodoginiwokexukimobatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/253f927e1c83660fd8901e22c2daad63/ninefosowadafusumejiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/tigekufedesugugomolafuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallymine-chicago.com/clients/867610/File/64219613129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabini.it/userfiles/files/44650238753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824ddb63a2c---kujimetifuvivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benjamin1908.com/clients/f/f4/f4560e3fe432b95d15e234f900dec36a/File/62212526369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/15329464775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b6c60338f---57057939679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ff61296fd---30250498288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=creative+chordal+harmony+for+guitar+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0001022f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1022F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A41 16820 bytes
SHA-256: 05ce792f76dfb92fa0f55d3ebf3cc2d29bdb73e3e7c211241bca47c12e8580ee
font_02_sfnt_off00014641.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14641 11296 bytes
SHA-256: aebbf1da35039c3099c8cdef1b7c076a92cb77a703488e1ddce79ae1a1107cdd