Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 191f9d9335980510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-27 06:03:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 0a58db5125f786001ada66b556e7d656 SHA-1: b78440ccad344fe848e5342e0e14fcd246a16635 SHA-256: 191f9d933598051078f840fc6e448ebabb3438218230f854d56d55b3acac9f51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://smart-ventures.ch/upload/Editor_Images/files/45093879969.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72d37b804fc6585bfb0c9eb1f4890448/16704538784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eec94ecf310d28e78aac0b0be57461f/81756749743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redfordunion70.com/clients/869360/File/87898814831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/32828120306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f93df9330f9a74e012ec4104ef14841/65075095090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/kinaluponudalodefofalubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a35fd0576d8f7bf3f8ea89fc52bb9918/sofodanuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvanco.be/docs/files/doxadewomugekiforube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08e58e44702a54cf846a72083adbc7d4/59890418873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77a46e722b816b238e75f3d4ab06ccb9/66793056441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfychina.com/upfiles/files/16256433613338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kepulibumupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2a41vkd3g5vn42gri6becjsa3/medipupoguronudepuzenalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cc11ff483da23fb18dd21132b931015/90707090195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/numikarevuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d87f9279e---53521502563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/kovibuvokanuxasodaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///94389141633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f2771dc18---xenumirobidikatezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babf3f8fe72---pupavixanezejixoraxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismart99.net/upload/files/74906150578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=brincadeiras+retiro+de+carnavalPDF 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_off0000e37e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE37E 18176 bytes
SHA-256: c30a08118c364e4579666b92f095872acba1f3b3bd7fd381656ebb2e40c6f867
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE6 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 473eff2867141fd4905f1c8f3a5078b757d413087d66f6c6660fb6839ad333e6
font_02_sfnt_off000127e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1