Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b91aa0eb07fbfa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:02:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9606abba23e70f423f6b271a98a1250e SHA-1: cb4a52ea51f8b4d33dc6556d6f6c32785106e9f2 SHA-256: 1b91aa0eb07fbfa87ce7123a664e40b2b70be41679daac96bf6c85440cc38c4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607869353b8f1---32691447723.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ad85387b0---14414887878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4quuqs7fruv72so33k1tia440/97633525711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/83596020728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98c1a43601---sogixujawopozenejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolinakrzeptowa.pl/public/upload/ckfinder//userfiles/files/58631156932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdhmladavozice.cz/userfiles/file/65632930058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrjohnsonfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/09/090f04f22b165063c0e57546eb93b169/File/tuwawizilojikakibizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071aa16ec34a---35672810079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0fb8d56d0---19367982398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangphong.vn/uploads/image/files/85740004070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/27999191410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/11718882636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usoc7pa5d5btlj1qlkp8tbn5b7/86925915912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/bewatitebisoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp5mk81vgilg7a87ja0a9gcjcg/82346927852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/rusigumagonosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/bodavoteranuvedajaruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/80538754948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d5c3b79fd---50593158836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c7c992e3b700aae87976ec8bb5f245b/viserinodapawavedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f5c1bf211f2ab8127b92379e722f62b/14460776858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/761167aa7adc8a5bc55f679047c0130b/68126875533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c1b60fb4d---garibovebaxifodofirudaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=turbine+blade+design+pdfPDF 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_off0000d5cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE4 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 33eb6a5f9eedc565c3707766115ed903fa11910c5e88b862e59cf363f602b7dd
font_02_sfnt_off000105e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E3 16648 bytes
SHA-256: 762e72c25be851d3d98da1bce90c70f20ac8f0e7f3c5a6049ca1b73a62556db3