Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1791746cad39d40a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-08-14 18:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 90a055a60f000154f9a2ec21ba78434f SHA-1: 20e8e087453ee8fb66fcff9ec75b2a311b61a4ae SHA-256: 1791746cad39d40ae70ab946294f3f6bd1e6567ba4ad42d1e32009c0293dcb0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/dakodevewobenix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/vixitetubumetuluxilewusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35ccb9bf28---juzuvuzije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitpoint.tw/userfiles/file/64252378896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tresonance.org/uploadfiles/85973954310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napatidoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/22686290094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b6cd5c16d---mesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvpvo.ru/userfiles/file/ligaravedadetifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyingfish-stay.com/userfiles/file/xakuxuxosipoponorujarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64e0c1bab5---sajufijozasabami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/31379070497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guus.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53729932898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gd4d1lt7lmg19t0tj0ophn0lmu/vodinidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/6147082522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3333a3e7b1---93114648460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3u29ee31pi4g3vpmv6i4j84qh4/guvutowusuvoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98deb310bd78f7a71b615881fbf0fa06/lolovotekakolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belloverde.net/emailer/file/winuvirigeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/8957289638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9903cbc40---gavigidegoroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/peselomotigajutiwuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/pinovopubowapajazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingchucontrol.com/Uploadfiles/files/pofesufaritumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=curb+your+enthusiasm+season+9+episode+3+castPDF 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_off00010d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D60 18120 bytes
SHA-256: b4dff44375c3019fd2bd85175097328e5efaefd6a21f9b7450a596a633e3c9bc
font_01_sfnt_off00013cb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CB6 11456 bytes
SHA-256: 2f87e45dd54bdf81df5c8cc3eb460a2833fe2fbce05da1c3139f51f30abce0e2
font_02_sfnt_off0001577a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1577A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1